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Article #620900Re: Computer science hot major in college (article)
From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 10:38
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 10:38
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On 22/02/2018 09:51, Bob Eager wrote: > > Python? Try assembly language - or, if you are old enough to remember > BCPL, that's a language where you can store the address of some code in a > label and GOTO somewhere completely different... BCPL, C and CORAL, to my mind, all had one thing in common, and that was to represent most of the capability of assembly language but presented as a high level language, ie, in a human context as opposed to a machine context. AIUI the capability in C to cast a hex number as an integer, for example, address was to enable access to memory mapped I/O and such things as interrupt vectors. The major failing of C as a high level language is that logical and relational AND and OR operators are at the same precedence whereas logical should be higher thus ridding the necessity of extra brackets.
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