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0 pointsrichardwhiuk7y ago0 comments

That's not true - PDP-11 era C isn't either - if you run it on a modern processor. And it's doubtful it even was then.

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lmm7y ago

> PDP-11 era C isn't either - if you run it on a modern processor. And it's doubtful it even was then.

With a modern compiler C isn't low-level. But under PDP-11 era C compilers, C really did map closely to processor instructions.

Shikadi7y ago

Not closely enough that it would have been considered low level at the time, if you look at the instruction set C isn't even close to one-to-one with the machine instructions. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11_architecture#Myth_of_... for why people might mistakenly think otherwise

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lmm7y ago

> PDP-11 era C isn't either - if you run it on a modern processor. And it's doubtful it even was then.

With a modern compiler C isn't low-level. But under PDP-11 era C compilers, C really did map closely to processor instructions.

Shikadi7y ago

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