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On 05/11/2010 03:59 PM, Warp wrote:
> Why is C not considered a "high level language" anylonger, given that
> once it was?
>
> AFAIK originally the idea with a "high level language" was a language which
> abstracts away the machine code completely, allowing the same program to be
> compiled for completely different and unrelated processor architectures.
As I understand it, originally almost /everything/ was written in
machine code, by hand. Compared to that, C is a very, very high-level
language.
Today I can write programs in languages that are so high-level that they
sometimes don't even look like they should be executable. They almost
look like pseudo-code.
I guess that's the difference.
(And no, you can't objectively measure such a thing.)
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