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I know people often refer to C as portable assembly, but really it's not. That sounds like the sort of thing gets repeated by people who neither know C nor ass
by wheels 7y ago
I know people often refer to C as portable assembly, but really it's not. That sounds like the sort of thing gets repeated by people who neither know C nor assembly. C is incomparably higher level than assembly and lacks the quirkiness modern instruction sets have which are focused on specific odd things modern processors do well.
- Psyladine 7y agoBit like chicken & egg though, with processors chasing better implementations of C rather than better implementations of assembly: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
- lallysingh 7y agoI refer you to MASM macros in the late 1990s. If you want the same runtime environment of asm without the tediousness of asm development, and a reasonable optimizer to save you more tediousness, you end up at C. I count that as close enough.