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What properties of C indicate that it is meant to be compiled? The word "compiler" does not appear in the ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard (aka C99) in any meaningful

What properties of C indicate that it is meant to be compiled? The word "compiler" does not appear in the ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard (aka C99) in any meaningful way (there is just one sentence in a footnote).

goatlover 9y ago
That it's fairly close to assembly for a high level language, and most C that has ever been written has been compiled.
- sigjuice 9y ago
  Okay, but it still seems strange to claim compiled-ness as some sort of intrinsic property of a language.
  - goatlover 9y ago
    It's more a general descriptive of languages designed with compilation in mind.