rosalia@reed.UUCP (Mark Galassi) (06/06/85)
In article <1366@ecsvax.UUCP> dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) writes: >What I would like to see is a good alternative to assembler language, >one that would allow high-level constructs when they are useful and low >level machine control when that it useful. It is obvious that such a >language would have to be machine specific, though it is also >reasonable to suspect that some degree of portability in syntax could >be achieved (there have been portably assemblers written, believe it or >not). >D Gary Grady >Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC 27706 >(919) 684-3695 >USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary That is what I have always thought C was: a language that allows you to do all you want to the machine (almost) and yet has high level constructs.