On Mar 7, 2008, at 11:59 AM, wouter van ooijen wrote:

>> Your are wrong: high or low level is referred to the abstracion level
>> from from assembly to human language not to capabilities!
>
> I agree. High or Low refers to the language, not to the libraries.
>
I'm not convinced.  The competing languages of the day all had features
built into the language the C provides only via libraries.  Maybe that
makes C "not" a high level language, but...

> How many compilers targeted for small micros such as the PIC have
> any POSIX support?

I may have lumped more under the Posix label than belongs there.   
These days string and math functions are also standardized (ISO  
9899 ?) to a point where even small device compilers support them,  
and things aren't nearly so unpleasant as in the mid 1980s...

BillW

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