Subj : C is the most efficient p
To   : Nightfox
From : Boraxman
Date : Fri Dec 24 2021 22:17:00

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 Ni>   Re: C is the most efficient p
 Ni>   By: Boraxman to Digital Man on
 Ni> Sat Nov 06 2021 07:33 pm

 Bo> I wouldn't call Assembly a Language. There isn't really a language per so,
 Bo> just mnemonics and instructions to the assembler itself. It is more a
 Bo> system to assembly machine code, and the efficiency of assembly is heavily
 Bo> dependent on the ability of the programmer.

 Ni> I always thought assembly was a language, in that it consists of
 Ni> statements you can use to control logic and program flow.  Assembly has
 Ni> a 'vocabulary' of keywords (or instructions) that make up the language.
 Ni>  But every CPU has its own assembly.

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True, but with C, something like
for (int x = 0; x < 100; ++x) {
    a*=x;
    }

That code is defined by a language, a specification.  What "for" and "int" mean
are defined by the language.  The structure of the code is defined by the
language.  That is to say, C is actually a set of rules, a formal language that
then gets converted to machine code.

But with Assembler, there is not formal Assembler specification, no Assembly
keywords, etc, they are all implementation specific.

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