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On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 16:30:17 +0100
Bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:

> On 25/08/2024 15:55, fir wrote:
> > James Kuyper wrote:  
> >> On 8/25/24 08:18, John Forkosh wrote:  
> >>> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:  
> >> ...  
> >>> I recall C as originally characterized as a "portable assembly 
> >>> language",
> >>> as opposed to a "higher level language". And I'd agree with that
> >>> assessment, whereby I think you're barking up the wrong tree by
> >>> trying to evaluate its merits/demerits vis-a-vis higher-level
> >>> languages. Consider it with respect to its own objectives,
> >>> instead.  
> >>
> >> C has been mischaracterized as a "portable assembly language", but
> >> that has never been an accurate characterization. It has, from the
> >> very beginning, been defined by the behavior that is supposed to
> >> result from translating and executing the C code, not the assembly
> >> language that's supposed to be produced by the translation process.
> >> C is a high level language. It is a very low-level high-level
> >> language, but it's not in any sense an assembler.
> >>  
> > 
> > c is mid level language - i mean it has more sense to call c that
> > way than call it low level or high level
> >   
> 
> So what language goes between Assembly and C?
>

Popular today? Not many. In the past? PL/M, BLISS. Although the former
is at almost the same level as C.

> There aren't many! 

Because C is seen as good enough.

> So it's reasonable to consider C as being at the 
> lowest level of HLLs.
> 
> Putting C at mid-level would make for a very cramped space above it
> as 99% of languages would have to fit in there.
> 

Why is it a problem?