In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/27/2007
at 09:49 AM, "Jeffrey D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>The C language most definitely *is* a portable assembly language.
In the sense that a camel is a portable octopus.
>The original *NIX compilers actually translated the C source code
>into the native platform assembly language.
How does that make it any more of an assembly language than, e.g.,
FORTRAN?
>The compilers allowed inserting "raw" assembly language,
I see no such thing in either K&R or the ANSI standard.
>Even IBM uses Systems/C.
That doesn't make it assembly language, or even desirable.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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