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drob518 69 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The earliest versions of the first C compiler know...

Exactly. C started off as high level assembly language. That was both a strength, at first, and a weakness, later on.

codr7 69 days ago [–]

It's still both its core strength and core weakness, which is why it's not going anywhere.

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