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On 03.04.15 15:37, Bob Duff wrote:
> 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.

Depends! ;-)

Robert B. K. Dewar; Anthony P. McCann (1979).
  MINIMAL - A Machine Independent Assembly Language.
  Computer Science Department Technical Report. No. 12.
  Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.


(That's the language in which Macro SPITBOL (a SNOBOL-4 compiler)
is written.)

(But C clearly isn't an assembly language, since, for example,
what is the equivalent of a compile-time checked parameter of
type "struct S" in assembly language?)