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On 04-Apr-14 17:21, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
> C is special case though, as it's often used as a target language (or a
> portable assembly language).

There are other languages where you could do this, too.
Forth comes to mind as a possible alternative as it's supposed to be 
pretty dang easy to implement/re-target.

> Talking about C, one should always have two
> very distinct cases in mind: hand‑written C
> and software generated C,
> and not confuse both.

I'm still critical of the SW generated stuff; unless you've done some 
sort of formal verification on the generation itself you're merely 
losing any accuracy/safety in the name of 'portability' because "every 
environment has a C compiler."