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In traditional circles (read: not rubymongojs land), C is considered a high level language because you aren't writing assembly or maintaining stacks by hand.
by seiji 14y ago
In traditional circles (read: not rubymongojs land), C is considered a high level language because you aren't writing assembly or maintaining stacks by hand.
- rayiner 14y agoNot in this decade... I used to do embedded programming and even we considered C/C++ to be somewhere in the middle, with Java being the "high level" language for our management software and C/C++ being the "low level" language for our embedded devices.
- betterunix 14y agoYou are, however, dealing with pointers, memory deallocation, the bit widths of integers, etc. C as a high level language is a questionable idea.