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| From | Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News |
| Date | 2016-03-15 08:47 -0700 |
| Organization | None to speak of |
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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:
> On Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 12:19:44 AM UTC, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> Jan Coombs <jenfhaomndgfwutc@murmic.plus.com> writes:
>>
>> Yes, and that description was accurate. An automobile is a carriage
>> (though we no longer call it that), one that (usually) operates without
>> a horse.
>>
> In the States, no.
> This side of the pond, we call them "cars" rather than automobiles.
So do we. "Automobile" and "car" are both used. "Car" is perhaps
slightly less formal. (This is, of course, irrelevant.)
> An automobile is specifically a horseless carriage, a "car" usually also
> means a horseless carriage, but can also mean one pulled by a
> locomotive ("the dining car"), or by a horse, though that's now rare.
The term "dining car" is also commonly used in the US.
dictionary.com gives "a railway passenger coach" as a meaning of
"carriage", and says it's British. (Again, this is all irrelevant.)
A car/automobile is a horseless carriage. It is not a horse,
even though it largely replaces horses. (We could, I suppose,
have changed the meaning of the word "horse" to include cars,
but that didn't happen.)
C is not an assembler. I see a very stark distinction between
assembly languages (which specify, perhaps not with 100% fidelity,
sequences of CPU instructions) and higher-level languages (that say
nothing about CPU instructions). C is clearly on the higher-level
side of that divide. It's a relatively low-level language as
compared to, say, Python or Ada. But since we already have the
phrase "low-level language", I see no need to warp the meaning of
"assembler" to cover C.
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"
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Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-03-13 12:27 +0000
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-03-13 13:50 +0000
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-03-13 19:52 +0000
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-03-13 16:08 -0400
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-03-13 13:40 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-03-14 00:41 +0000
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-03-13 18:23 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-03-14 02:59 +0000
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-03-13 20:29 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-03-14 22:44 +0000
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-03-14 16:23 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Jan Coombs <jenfhaomndgfwutc@murmic.plus.com> - 2016-03-14 23:55 +0000
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-03-14 17:19 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-03-15 03:06 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-03-15 08:47 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-03-15 11:59 -0400
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-03-15 09:34 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-03-15 11:17 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-03-15 12:41 -0400
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-03-15 10:54 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-03-15 11:18 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-03-15 14:42 -0400
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-03-15 11:54 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-03-15 16:11 -0400
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-03-15 16:13 -0400
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-15 16:18 -0500
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-03-15 15:37 -0500
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-03-15 16:42 -0400
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-14 19:26 -0500
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-03-15 00:48 +0000
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-03-14 22:30 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-03-15 07:23 +0000
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-03-15 10:09 +0000
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2016-03-15 08:19 -0400
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-03-15 08:56 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-03-15 19:33 +0000
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-17 09:46 +0100
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-03-17 09:37 -0400
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-17 18:40 +0100
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-03-17 13:53 -0400
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-03-17 11:53 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-03-17 19:58 -0400
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-17 18:37 +0100
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-03-18 14:36 +0000
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-03-18 08:14 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-03-14 09:17 +0100
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-03-14 14:14 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-03-14 14:26 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-03-14 14:46 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-03-15 10:39 +0100
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-03-15 10:38 +0100
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-03-15 07:47 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-03-14 22:56 +0000
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-14 20:00 -0500
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-03-15 11:22 +0100
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-03-14 00:43 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-03-14 08:06 +0000
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-03-14 14:01 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-03-14 14:55 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-03-14 15:17 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-03-14 22:40 +0000
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-03-14 20:12 -0400
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-03-14 16:17 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-03-14 23:28 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-03-15 00:05 -0700
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-03-15 08:29 +0000
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-03-14 22:38 +0000
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News Randy Howard <rhoward.mx@EverybodyUsesIt.com> - 2016-03-14 01:40 -0500
Re: OT: One of Anton's papers makes Hacker News fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-15 09:24 -0700
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