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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