> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On
Behalf
> Of William "Chops" Westfield
> Sent: 07 March 2008 16:06
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [PIC] Mixing MPASM and C (Hi-Tech PICC)
> 
> 
> 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...

But how many compilers targeted for small micros such as the PIC have
any POSIX support?

Mike

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