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Subject: Re: C is not a low level language
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Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
[...]
>> On 24/02/2019 17:56, Bill Findlay wrote:
[...]
>> > There is language in which you can write:
>> >
>> > copy : String := source;
>> >
>> > The compiler does all the work.
>> > No need to use the heap.
[...]
>> > Any guesses?
>>
>> No. Which one was it?
>
> Not saying yet. 8-)

Please don't waste everyone's time.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Will write code for food.
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */