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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Language ranking
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"Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:

> C is special case though, as it's often used as a target language (or a
> portable assembly language).

I think there is no such thing as a "portable assembly language".
So C isn't one.  ;-)

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

True.  I think this discussion is about hand-written code.

- Bob