> >> Another time this boring thread...
> >>
> >> K&R stated that C is a LOW level language.
> >> Not an HLL!
> >>
> >
> >Compared to other languages of its time it is low level.
> 
> many people at the time considered C to be a high level transportable 
> assembler language because it was a low level language. 

A IMHO more appropriate term for languages like B, CPL, BCPL, Midial
(google doesn't even knwo that one:( ), and (maybe to a lesser extent) C
and Chill is MOHL: Machine-Oriented High level Language.

Wouter van Ooijen

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