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|(Dan Tilque) writes:
:-(Tim Rentsch) writes:

:-In this regard I should point out that C is only barely a HLL, and
:-should be nominated to replace FORTRAN as the world's most popular
:-assembly language.

|In another forum (comp.lang.c) C has been declared as the language in which
|it is easiest to write portable code.  Does this make it the closest
|thing to the Universal Assembly Language mentioned in the original
|posting?

According to a few of the "folk lore" stories,  C was actually intended
to be a "universal assembler" rather than an HLL.  This is one of the
reasons why "Lint" was not included in the compiler in such a way as
to make unlinted code bomb.  The nice flexible syntax, combined with
lack of strict typing, made it a good "generic assembler" for porting
UNIX among other things.

Remember, much of the "automatic typing" of B and BCPL were taken out of C.

About the only thing they forgot was "absolute addressing" and "pathalogical
calls" :-).

Rex B.