C == Assembly
Last month John Gruber asked the question “Is C the new assembly?”
It’s a tough question - what, exactly, does ‘the new assembly’ mean? The first things that pop into my head when I think of assembly language are these:
- Fast (or believed to be so)
- Ugly and difficult
- Nonportable
- Foundation for other languages
C has all of these attributes. (And more!) But does it have these attributes in such a way that it can be called ‘the new assembly’? I think so.
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13 comments March 4, 2007
