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Whenever I see people comparing C to assembly I automatically assume they don't know anything about (a) C or (b) any kind of assembly.
by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Whenever I see people comparing C to assembly I automatically assume they don't know anything about (a) C or (b) any kind of assembly.
- nkurz 13y agoI think your 'or' might be misleading, with the (a) incidental and (b) required. I deal with a number of smart C (and even C++) programmers who view it as assembly with macros. But I've yet to meet any assembly programmers who view C as just a more succinct way to write assembly. Maybe it can be phrased as "Anyone who conflates C and assembly has probably never compared the output of their compiler with the code they think they wrote".