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Discussion on: Is C still a high level language?

 
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C is very portable, and I'm not argueing with that, I'm agreeing.
I'm saying that it has an abstract machine that goes over everything, which is the only way to make code portable from one arch to another.
Things like the IR of compilier (LLVM was just the first thing to come to mind) are by definition portable since they can be sent through different backends, and they are much more low level, and more deserving of the title "portable assembly"