On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 02:53:52PM -0700, David Parsons wrote: > Novices like to prattle on about C being just another assembly >language, but they don't know what they're talking about.
No, C-- was just another assembly language. Actually it was a slightly C-like wrapper language that expected you to drop to assembler for anything hard. Lovely little language, compiled to .COM executables under DOS, and nobody believed you could do useful file manipulation in under a kbyte of object code. Hates? Well, it worked under DOS.
