Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...

James Kuyper wrote:

On 8/25/24 08:18, John Forkosh wrote:

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:

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I recall C as originally characterized as a "portable assembly language",
as opposed to a "higher level language". And I'd agree with that
assessment, whereby I think you're barking up the wrong tree by trying
to evaluate its merits/demerits vis-a-vis higher-level languages.
Consider it with respect to its own objectives, instead.

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C has been mischaracterized as a "portable assembly language", but that
has never been an accurate characterization. It has, from the very
beginning, been defined by the behavior that is supposed to result from
translating and executing the C code, not the assembly language that's
supposed to be produced by the translation process.
C is a high level language. It is a very low-level high-level language,
but it's not in any sense an assembler.
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c is mid level language - i mean it has more sense to call c that way
than call it low level or high level