minus-squareavidya@programming.devOPtoLinux@programming.dev•What UNIX Cost Us - Benno Rice (LCA 2020)linkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoIf I am not mistaken, the argument made by papers like “C is not a low level language” is that C used to be a low level language, because it fit the architecture of a PDP, but a modern computer isn’t a PDP, and so C isn’t low level. linkfedilink
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If I am not mistaken, the argument made by papers like “C is not a low level language” is that C used to be a low level language, because it fit the architecture of a PDP, but a modern computer isn’t a PDP, and so C isn’t low level.