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From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Subject: [TUHS] Comments on "C"
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 21:54:43 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1608282153280.14733@frieza.hoshinet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160829004237.GC14366@mcvoy.com>

On Sun, 28 Aug 2016, Larry McVoy wrote:

> I'm with Marc.  I think the C syntax is really pleasant, and while I enjoyed
> writing PDP-11 assembler (by far my favorite out the ones I've done which
> include VAX, m68k, 32032, z80, sparc, some x86 but not much), I don't want
> go back to writing assembler unless I have to.  C is a pleasant language
> that easily compiles to assembler.

Yeah, C's a really nice language.  About as high as Pascal and at the same 
time almost as low as ASM.

It's just a pity it's a horrible fit on the 6502 (my usual CPU of choice).

-uso.


  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-29  1:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-28 18:21 Dave Horsfall
2016-08-29  0:37 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-08-29  0:42   ` Larry McVoy
2016-08-29  1:54     ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2016-09-08  1:19     ` Blake McBride
2016-08-29  3:16   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-08-31 10:02     ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-08-31 12:59       ` John Cowan
2016-08-31 13:32         ` Ron Natalie
2016-08-31 14:37           ` John Cowan
2016-08-31 13:57   ` Brantley Coile
2016-09-01  9:17 Norman Wilson
2016-09-01 15:11 ` Clem Cole
2016-09-01 21:47 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-09-02  0:11   ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-09-02  7:10     ` Steve Simon
2016-09-02 10:02       ` Steve Nickolas
2016-09-02 14:13       ` Random832
2016-09-02 21:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-09-04 17:03   ` scj
2016-09-05 13:07     ` Ron Natalie
2016-09-04 22:24   ` Nemo
2016-09-08 12:35 Doug McIlroy
2016-09-09 17:07 ` scj
2016-09-08 13:30 Noel Chiappa
2016-09-08 14:22 ` Tony Finch
2016-09-08 19:20   ` Ron Natalie
2016-09-08 22:06     ` Dave Horsfall
2016-09-09  3:02       ` Ronald Natalie
2016-09-09  6:06         ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-09-09 21:15 ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-09-09  2:43 Doug McIlroy

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