RE: [HQ] How to be a coder 09-12-2013, 12:55 PM
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(09-12-2013, 06:39 AM)w00t Wrote: C is a high level language. Just because ILs are higher doesn't mean C isn't high level. If you aren't directly telling the processor what to do, it's a high level language.
I'd disagree with that, I wouldn't say that just because C isn't direct assembler that it isn't high-level.
Quote:Take the time to read it, both so you can learn that I'm right( C was based off of languages considered to be high level ), and because it's good shit to know.
That is actually a nice document by Patriarch Ritchie, I don't see how you think that BCPL and assembler are low-level though. Maybe PL/I but not them.