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Not closely enough that it would have been considered low level at the time, if you look at the instruction set C isn't even close to one-to-one with the machin
by Shikadi 8y ago
Not closely enough that it would have been considered low level at the time, if you look at the instruction set C isn't even close to one-to-one with the machine instructions. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11_architecture#Myth_of_PDP-11_influence_on_programming_languages https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11_architecture#Myth_of_... for why people might mistakenly think otherwise