Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <NSFJa.2$uK1.0@fe05.atl2.webusenet.com>,
Randy McLaughlin <randy@nospam.com> wrote:
 
> "Paul Schlyter" <pausch@saaf.se> wrote in message
> news:bd6922$157j$1@merope.saaf.se...
>> In article <RFoJa.7756$mS2.5421@fe04.atl2.webusenet.com>,
>> Randy McLaughlin <randy@nospam.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I would love to see someone control a port at a non-standard address in
>> > Basic, Fortran, Cobol, C, C++, etc without using extensions beyond the
>> > standard language.
>>
>> The problem with Basic here is that there are hardly any ANSI Basic
>> implementations....
>>
>> Anyway, doing this in C and C++ is quite trivial.  Suppose we wanted
>> to read a character off the Apple II keyboard (address $C000) and
>> then tell the keyboard we'd read it by writing to $C010.  In ANSI C
>> we would do like this:
> <snip>
> 
> I never said it was memory mapped.
 
No, but you posted it in comp.sys.apple2, and the Apple II was memory
mapped....
 
> The point is that the poster that specified any computer programming
> language had to be able to do the same tasks as in asm is not
> necessarily true.
 
Well, there are certainly things you can do in asm which cannot be done
in other programming languages....
 
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