Re: I need a new compiler...

In article <ghufmm41br2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

the first resonates; as I recall it Ritchie designed C at Bell Labs (back
when it was Bell Labs, early 1970s) as a replacement for Assembley
mnemonics.

Compiled languages in general were designed as a replacement for
assembly programming. That doesn't make them "like assembly".

It was not my intention to give that impression, Mr Wojcik, and I
apologise for my clumsiness in having done so.


It is a compiled language, true, but still provides low-level
system/memory/device access in an Assembley-like manner.

No, it doesn't. Some C implementations may extend the language to
provide direct access to memory and devices (whatever that may mean on
the platform), but that's not part of the C language.

If C, in fact, does *not* 'provide low-level access to memory' and is does
*not* have a 'primary use is for "system programming", including
implementing operating systems and embedded system applications, due to a
combination of desirable characteristics such as code portability and
efficiency, ability to access specific hardware addresses, ability to
"pun" types to match externally imposed data access requirements' then it
would seem that I am incorrect.

(quoted material above taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language) ... me, I'se jes' a
COBOL-codin' fool)

DD

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