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An intresting talk on Is Everything a File, IO Models, Is C a Low Level Language, and a quick comparison on Interfacing with USB devices on Mac OS, Linux and Windows.

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[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A lot of people like to call C low level, maybe in modern times that's fair? It misses the historical context of why it's not usually considered one though and it's ultimately sort of relative.

[–] avidya@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

If I am not mistaken, the argument made by papers like "C is not a low level language" is that C used to be a low level language, because it fit the architecture of a PDP, but a modern computer isn't a PDP, and so C isn't low level.