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Natural language does not have a specification, while both C and assembly do.


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mmooss12/08/2025

The C specification is orders of magnitude more complex and is much less defined than assembly. Arguably, the same could be said comparing natural language with C.

I admit that's mostly philosphical. But I think saying 'C can autogenerate reliable assembly, therefore a specification can autogenerate reliable C' is also about two different problems.