alt Hacker News> C is an abstraction of the machine, so thin it's nearly transparent.
Looks like someone fell for the C abstract machine trap yet again. No, C is isn’t an abstraction of the machine.
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nicebyte • today at 10:02 PM
they're technically not wrong. C is literally an "abstraction" of the machine. As we know, the whole point of an abstraction is to ignore the multitude of details :-)
skydhash • today at 4:53 PM
It may not be an abstraction of a real machine. But the C abstract machine is very close to the foundational idea of how a computer work. And it’s quite easy to bootstrap.
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C Is Not a Low-level Language: Your computer is not a fast PDP-11.
https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3212477.3212479