On 24/02/2019 04:40, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
> On 2/24/2019 12:11 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
>> On 2/24/2019 4:59 AM, jacobnavia wrote:
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http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/3220000/3212479/p10-chisnall.pdf?ip=90.22.143.2
33&id=3212479&acc=OPEN&key=4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B
35%2E6D218144511F3437&__acm__=1550954647_0d9af87c752b221627509ce89da282a8
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>>
>> C is definitely no 4GL (4th generation language)!
>> But .... many 4GLs were written in C! :)
>>
>
> And many operating systems are written in C.
> In short, C is a pillar!
>
Well its a very fast way to write portable assembler.

And if more programs were written in it we would have programs of one
tenth the size runninmg ten times faster and a huge number of crap
programmers would be flipping burgers.



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