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From: Bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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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?

There aren't many! 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.