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I’m just old enough to remember when C and Pascal were called high-level languages. “C is actually assembly” was quite a plot twist from there.
by pavlov 3y ago
I’m just old enough to remember when C and Pascal were called high-level languages.
“C is actually assembly” was quite a plot twist from there.
- vanderZwan 3y agoYou can thank Rob Pike for that, about a decade ago he wrote a Google Plus post arguing that one of the things C brought to the table was that it essentially was portable assembly compared to most other high level language projects at the time. I guess the tiny sliver of nuance that the "essentially" added was quickly lost.