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Nov 20, 2015 at 14:02. There is no official definition, but historically assembler/machine code was considered low-level and any language more abstracted was high-level. But C is one of the high-level languages which is closest to the machine level, which is why it is sometimes designated "mid-level", while scripting languages like Python have ...
Compared to, say, Python, the C language is positively primitive in semantic richness and level of abstraction over the hardware. With that in mind, many people find it misleading to call C high-level, when there is a wealth of languages that are far higher above the hardware. So now "high-level" usually means "abstracts a lot over hardware ...
It seems that C has its own quasi-objects such as 'structs' that can be considered as objects. Let's together you and I read through the Wikipedia page on object oriented programming and check off the features of C-style structs that correspond to what is traditionally considered to be object-oriented style:
Oct 10, 2011 · @kylben: Many C++ guys will tell you: (1) Performance is not a reason to drop to C (perhaps to avoid virtual and a few other features which prevent optimizations, but e.g. non-virtual classes aren't inherently inefficient, and templates are a powerful abstraction tool that can actually lead to more efficient - e.g. qsort vs std::sort).
Dec 28, 2014 · C is really good at teaching these things helped by the fact that There is a small, fixed number of keywords. Less Language Learning, more Language Using. When you learn C you automatically learn other languages. C has been the inspiration for many many programming languages that have similar syntax.
227. C has the advantage that it is a relatively small language, which makes it easy to implement a C compiler (whereas a C++ compiler is a monster to write), and makes it easier to learn the language. Also see the TIOBE index, according to which C slightly ahead of C++. In (IMO) decreasing order of justification, C is still used a lot for.
Closed 12 years ago. The Top 10 programming languages, according to the TIOBE index seem to be heavily influenced by C: 1. Java. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities. - wikipedia.org. 2.
Jun 8, 2016 · Second, C provides performance that languages like Java and Python do not. Typically, high performance computing in Java and Python will use libraries written in a high-performance language such as C to do the heavy lifting. Third, C has a much smaller footprint than languages like Java and Python.
C is easier to use for making more complex programs. Learning C is somehow more productive than learning assembler cause there is more developing stuff around C than Assembler. Disadvantages: Assembler is a lower level programming language than C,so this makes it a good for programming directly to hardware.
The statement "Python is written in C" doesn't make sense. Python is not a software. It is a specification. It is written in English, not in any programming language. "Java is a derivative of C" is mainly wrong. Java is inspired by Objective-C, but it gets rid of most of the C parts and takes mostly the Smalltalk parts. –
