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A java programmer acquaintance of mine calls C "portable assembly language".
by fnordfnordfnord 12y ago
A java programmer acquaintance of mine calls C "portable assembly language".
- henk53 12y agoIt's not that far from the truth. C was designed to be very close to the machine and allows mixing in of inline assembly. This latter feature is almost unthinkable in what most people would call high level languages today (Java, C#, Swift, etc). For better or worse, Java is increasingly being used in embedded scenarios. Blu-ray players are a prime example, but televisions, settop boxes of various kinds also use Java these days.
- donarb 12y agoJava, originally called Oak, was created specifically for programming settop boxes for cable TV.