<div dir="auto">Given that one of the original design goals of c was to make a "high level assembler" I find this hilarious. Yes, forth is closer to the hardware, but it's at a level not needed by 95% of us.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 4, 2017 5:07 PM, "Gordonjcp" <<a href="mailto:gordonjcp@gjcp.net">gordonjcp@gjcp.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 11:02:42AM -0700, MTG wrote:<br>
> That's curious. The reason I got on so well with C was because it<br>
> was so much like assembly language. Ha ha.<br>
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I don't really like C because it's all so abstracted and you can't really get at the hardware. I appreciate that very high level languages have their place, and all. Forth is good, though, I use that a lot.<br>
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