On Tuesday 30 of October 2012 10:26:52 Richard Miller wrote: > > Best way to save developer time is to program in a HLL and not > > worry about bit fiddling. C is not a HLL. > > C was created as a language to do bit fiddling in - a tool for writing > assembly language a bit more productively than doing it by hand. (..)
slightly branching off: true that. however, people still manage medium-to-high level with a bit of macros and advanced stuff. the other day i browsed http://9hal.ath.cx/usr/cinap_lenrek/cifsd.tgz -- looks high-level enough for me. putty uses home-brew coroutines in portable C, as per http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html -- dexen deVries [[[↓][→]]] How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
