C is often described, with a mixture of fondness and disdain varying according 
to the speaker, as "a language that combines all the elegance and power of 
assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly 
language." (MIT Jargon Dictionary)


Jon


<snip>
C is considerably more basic than HLA. In fact, any assembler with a
decent macro facility is higher level than C.
</snip>

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