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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: On "high-levelness" of languages (was "C wish list")
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 18:37:34 -0700
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Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 17:53:11 +0000
> Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>> > On 23/03/2019 15:24, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> >> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>> >>> On 22/03/2019 17:05, Bart wrote:
[...]
>> >>>> Is C higher or lower level than Python? That's easy to answer. In
>> >>>> that case it shouldn't be hard to find a language X which is higher
>> >>>> level than ASM, and lower level than X, and that is portable.
>> >>
>> >> BCPL?
>> 
>> (I'm assuming the X was a typo.)
>
> It doesn't seem like a typo to me.

"... and lower level than X" should have been "... and lower level
than C".

[...]

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