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by hougaard 1389 days ago
An assembler spillover into C.
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JKCalhoun 1389 days ago
Was C ever much more than a veneer on top of assembler?

Don't get me wrong, it's why I like C.

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adwn 1389 days ago
> Was C ever much more than a veneer on top of assembler?

Maybe in the very early days, but that necessarily had to end as soon as compilers started doing non-trivial optimizations. Today, C is very far from being "portable assembly".

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