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pjmlp ◴[14 Apr 25 13:43 UTC] No.43681194[source]▶

> The reason I believe C is and always will be important is that it stands in a class of its own as a mostly portable assembler language, offering similar levels of freedom.

When your computer is a PDP-11, otherwise it is a high level systems language like any other.

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1. _kst_ ◴[16 Apr 25 05:41 UTC] No.43701871[source]▶

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C is a relatively low level language, but it is not assembly language.

The difference is clear. Assembly language programs specify sequences of CPU instructions. C programs specify runtime behavior.

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