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Do you think C is a dialect of Assembly?
by swaits 15y ago
Do you think C is a dialect of Assembly?
- raganwald 15y agoI can’t speak to whatever C looks like today, but when I first learned it, absolutely positively C was a kind of portable dialect of assembly for an idealized CPU architecture. For example, the (in)famous equivalence between 10[p] and p[10] point to C being a kind of translator rather than an entirely new way to think about programs.
- gcp 15y agoInteresting question. After some consideration, I think it depends on whether we are using an optimizing compiler(!) or not.