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0 pointsmunificent7y ago0 comments

> Actually, the author's argument about PDP-11 is interesting because C would have never been considered a low level language back then, for any platform.

Sure, agreed, but I don't think it's super interesting that words evolve in meaning over time.

What I find strange about the comments here is that some people think the article's title is bad even though my experience is that many people today do think "C is a low level language" is a reasonable thing to say.

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Shikadi7y ago

I guess I'm arguing that it is a reasonable thing to say today in the right context. When I talk to web developers who don't understand anything about computer architecture for example it's much easier for me to tell them I'm a low level developer rather than explain that I design digital hardware (FPGA) and write drivers and firmware to interact with it. But I do agree that it's important developers know that C doesn't correspond to the CPU in the way they might mistakenly think it does

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0 pointsmunificent7y ago0 comments

> Actually, the author's argument about PDP-11 is interesting because C would have never been considered a low level language back then, for any platform.

Sure, agreed, but I don't think it's super interesting that words evolve in meaning over time.

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Shikadi7y ago

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