Re: "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C" by Damien Katz

From	Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
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Subject	Re: "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C" by Damien Katz
Date	2013-01-19 15:17 +1300
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glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> BartC <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>
> (snip)
>
>>> Ada, Modula-2, some versions of Algol, to name a few.  Quality is
>>> something of a judgment call, of course.
>
>> OK, those aren't quite what I'd call low-level, in the way that C is.
>
> Yes, but you can also see that C is not quite as high level, either.
>
>> I've worked on a few myself, but there seem to be few mainstream languages
>> now at the level of C or below (ie. 'machine-oriented'). (In the past there
>> were languages such as PL/M but now C seems to be the main one.)
>
> There was (maybe still is) PL/360.
>
> It is really an assembler that looks like a HLL, as surprising
> side effects occur if you aren't looking.
>
> The only others comparable to C that I can think of are the
> predecessors, B and BCPL, and, as mentioned, PL/M.

Or its successor: C++.

-- 
Ian Collins

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  Re: "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C" by Damien Katz JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2013-01-15 05:02 +0000
    Re: "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C" by Damien Katz William Ahern <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2013-01-14 22:44 -0800
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          Re: "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C" by Damien Katz glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2013-01-19 00:23 +0000
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