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- From: h9290246@hkuxa.hku.hk (Zsoter Andras)
- Subject: Re: Interest in comments on the C language.
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- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 10:54:05 GMT
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- Auke Reitsma (Auke.Reitsma@net.HCC.nl) wrote:
- >> 1: Is C inheriantly efficient (speed and code space wise)?
- >
- >(I think that should be "inherently".)
- >Yes, it is efficient -- especially when used with a _good_ optimizer. C is
- >a rather 'low level' language, and as such can be nearly as good as
- >assembler. But a bad programmer can mess up things horribly ...
-
- Does a definition for a "low level language" exist?
- I would disagree that anything with an optimizer is "low level".
- If my statements do not map directly to some kind of machine code
- but they are reorganized (even possibly deleted) than the language is
- not "low level".
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- Andras
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