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From: Bob Duff <bobduff@theworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Languages don't  matter.  A mathematical refutation
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Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:

> On 04/02/2015 05:50 PM, robin.vowels@gmail.com wrote:
>> 
>> C has lower productivity than most other HLLs.
>
> Not surprising, since C isn't a high-level language.

Assembly language: Semantics are defined in terms of the generated
machine code.

High-level language: Semantics are defined in terms of what the program
does.

Those are how I understand the terms, and I think how they are commonly
understood.  I can't think of any other useful definitions.
C is clearly a high-level language, by those definitions.

Portably assembly language: A contradiction in terms that is used by
some people to denigrate C, and by other people to praise it.  ;-)
No such thing.

- Bob