Warp escreveu:
> nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> the rest is quite accurate.  Or might I say, *was*.  Because once upon a time C
>> indeed was high level and javascript was interpreted...
> 
>   Why is C not considered a "high level language" anylonger, given that
> once it was?

I'm tempted to say because there are now much higher level languages 
than C, whose implementations indeed use it mostly as portable assembly.

But then I remember Lisp was there when Dennis Ritchie was still a kid, 
so C was actually never a high level language to begin with, and the 
fact that it was created most specifically to allow to port Unix to 
other platforms should be a good clue of its original intent...

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