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- From: twalker952@aol.com (TWalker952)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,rec.games.programmer
- Subject: Re: ! Read me and State your opinion.
- Date: 10 Apr 1996 11:54:00 -0400
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- : I wrote:
-
- : > Hate to burst your experience bubble... However, C, C++, PASCAL,BASIC
- and
- : > the like are all "high-level" languages... Assembly and machine code
- are
- : > "low-level"....
- Max wrote:
- : I have heard C called a low level language, though, so he is correct.
- : The people who call it a low-level language aren't (perhaps) correct. I
- : would like to venture to suggest that C is on the lower side of the
- : high-level languages. I think quite a few would agree.
- huang wrote:
-
- >>I've never heard C described as "low-level", but when its use began on
- >>small machines, I've heard the term "medium-level" associated with it.
- >>The rationale is that C is really a thinly-disguised abstraction of
- >>assembly language, because its constructs map readily to assembly. Of
- >>course, I've also heard assembly described as a "high-level" language -
- >>by people who type opcodes in hex directly into the box ;).
-
- I guess it would depend on how you program as to it's "construct"
- level.... especially if you started to use a lot of in-line code. IOW: I
- agree!
-
- Anyway, C is definitely here to stay!
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