Larry Bradley wrote:

> I've been a programmer all my (rather long) life, and
> programmed in a lot of languages, including several assemblers. As far as I
> am concerned, C is just assembler with curly brackets.

It is an "assembler with curly brackets" that targets many processors.
It is a data base of common code snippets that get applied where
appropriate.

It was never supposed to be a high level language just a good way to manage
processor resources and application data.

Regards,

--
Walter Banks
Byte Craft Limited
http://www.bytecraft.com



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