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

On 25/08/2024 17:17, Michael S wrote:

On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 16:30:17 +0100
Bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
 

On 25/08/2024 15:55, fir wrote:

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
  

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So what language goes between Assembly and C?
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 Popular today? Not many. In the past? PL/M, BLISS. Although the former
is at almost the same level as C.
 

There aren't many!

 Because C is seen as good enough.

Because it's seen off most of the competition, partly thanks to the dominance of Unix.
Lots of younger people now think that C is what a lower level, systems language is supposed to look like.

So it's reasonable to consider C as being at the
lowest level of HLLs.
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Putting C at mid-level would make for a very cramped space above it
as 99% of languages would have to fit in there.
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 Why is it a problem?

It's only a problem if the aim is to classify languages according to perceived level say from 1 to 100. Then you don't start by classifying one of the lowest level ones as 50.
If plotting such a chart (say level vs. year of introduction), half of it would be empty.