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That's not why people moved from assembly to C, C is portable, assembly is CPU specific, the move to C was about abstraction to a higher level language in the n
by gnaritas 7y ago
That's not why people moved from assembly to C, C is portable, assembly is CPU specific, the move to C was about abstraction to a higher level language in the name of portability to multiple processors, not about verifying program correctness.
- ErotemeObelus 7y ago"C is portable" for some definition of portable I suppose
- pjmlp 7y agoAt Bell Labs, on the outside people where already using plenty of Algol and PL/I variants.