I don't know. Back in the day, assembly was low-level because it was directly converted to machine code. C was high level because you could express more complex structures without worrying about the underlying architecture.
I still like that distinction. I think people are trying to call C low level simply because there are even higher level languages. It's not just 'high' or 'low'. It's a spectrum. C might be lower level to other languages, but higher level to assembler. > On Jun 16, 2015, at 4:40 PM, Simon Slavin <slavins at bigfraud.org> wrote: > > Since this thread has ... become what it is ... I may as well add a couple of > details. > > The widely-used compiler LLVM uses an intermediate representation of your > code, called 'Bitcode'. In other words, it's not a simple case of compiling > straight to object code. This feeds into some distinctions made between high > level and low level languages in previous posts. > > I also wanted to comment on various things said about C by saying that there > is no industry agreement about whether C is a high level or low level > language. Mostly because those terms were never defined very clearly because > it was obvious to every programmer what they were looking at. If the > language included words which looked like human languages, it was a high > level language. If it was based around acronyms and very short words like > MOVE is was low level. C messed up the distinction and since then we've been > running to keep up. > > Simon. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users at mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users This email and any attachments are only for use by the intended recipient(s) and may contain legally privileged, confidential, proprietary or otherwise private information. Any unauthorized use, reproduction, dissemination, distribution or other disclosure of the contents of this e-mail or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.
