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Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)Posted Jun 29, 2012 21:00 UTC (Fri) by PaulMcKenney (subscriber, #9624)In reply to: Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar) by ekj Parent article: Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)
Of course, when Brooks wrote "The Mythical Man Month", C was considered to be a high-level language. ;-)
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Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar) Posted Jun 29, 2012 23:02 UTC (Fri) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
By who? Certainly not by K&R. In the preface of "The C Programming Language" (an absolutely must for anybody wanting to start with C and programming in general) you can read this:
"C is a general purpose programming language which features economy of expression, modern flow control and data structures, and a rich set of operators. C is not a ``very high level'' language, nor a ``big'' one [...]"
Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar) Posted Jun 30, 2012 15:10 UTC (Sat) by engla (guest, #47454) [Link]
“very high level” language and “high level” language are different labels. The former obviously created to differentiate from the latter.
Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar) Posted Jul 2, 2012 0:24 UTC (Mon) by rodgerd (guest, #58896) [Link]
So if someone tells you the movie they just watched was "not very good", you'd assume it was a good movie, rather than a bad one?
Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar) Posted Jul 4, 2012 12:25 UTC (Wed) by jwakely (subscriber, #60262) [Link] There's a difference between not very high level and not "very high level"
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