newbie building a scratch-built computer

[dwight elvey]

>From: "Ensor" <classiccmp at memory-alpha.org.uk>
>
>Hi,
>
>  > What is wrong with C?! :(
>
>Don't get me started.... ;-)
>
>  > Yes it is not assembly, but it is also much closer to the
>  >hardware then most of the other structured programming languages
>  >out there!
>
>I've always regarded "C" as more of a "high level macro assembler", I 
>personally don't regard it as a high level language as such - sort of a 
>halfway house.
>
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Hi
I'm not sure why you'd say that. It is a simple programming language
but is quite remote from most any assembly language I've worked
with. The only higher level languages that I've worked with that
I could say were close to assembly were Forth and LISP. That is
only because there were machines made that were dedicated to
that particular lanuage.
C doesn't fit well onto any of the processors that I've seen lately.
It is always sub-optimal.
Dwight

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