On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, William "Chops" Westfield wrote:

> 
> 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...

Do you remember the days before "type safe linking" !!!

Regards
Sergio
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