On Mar 6, 2008, at 2:17 PM, sergio masci wrote:

>> K&R stated that C is a LOW level language.
>> Not an HLL!
>>
> Compared to other languages of its time it is low level.

And the C of today is rather different than K&R C.  In particular,
part of what made the original C "low level" was that it lacked any
sort of I/O capabilities or standardized function libraries (compare
to fortran, pl/1, cobol, where a large part of the language is IO
capability.)  By the time you add a Posix library definition and
function prototypes to what a C compiler is expected to provide,
you're well up there with the other HLLs...

BillW

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