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Re:C as an intermediate language (2012) by Roboprog on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @10:26AM (#6057793)
C: AKA "portable assembler" :-)
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Re:C as an intermediate language (2012) by pjmlp on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @12:57PM (#6058739)
TI has a DSP processor where the assembly looks quite much like the early days of C:

    mov reg1, reg2    ==>  reg1 = reg2
    mov reg1, [reg2]  ==>  reg1 = *reg2
    add reg1, reg2    ==>  reg1 += reg2
And so on.
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Re:C as an intermediate language (2012) by Roboprog on Thursday July 18, 2013 @10:31AM (#6063846)
looks sort of like PDP 11 assembler, particularly the [] brackets for indirect access through a register.
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