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No, I can and I will, and it will still be truthful. Because to most people with a firm understanding of the nature of English my statement means: "When I, in
by BoorishBears 5y ago
No, I can and I will, and it will still be truthful.
Because to most people with a firm understanding of the nature of English my statement means:
"When I, in current times not 40 years ago, hear people talk about C, they most often refer to it as a systems level language".
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Of course, I forget this is HN and there are some people who think that it means:
I have never seen "C" and "low level" on the same line of text!
For these unfortunate cases, there is a belief that 40 year old K&R references (...) and some hastily assembled search results will change my reality... but that's a separate issue I'm not interested in.
Those people are definitely free to consider me a liar, the world will keep spinning for the rest of us.
- eesmith 5y agoI don't like responding to anecdotes with anecdotes, so rather than reply with a (IMO pointless) "what?! I hear people talk about C as a low-level language far more often than I hear them talk about it as a systems language", I prefer to give something more substantial. Restricting my hastily assembled search to HN, I easily find comments from within the last few months referring to C as a low-level language ... and yes, as a systems language too. HN is a casual setting with newer programmers.