OTOH C was invented because these exact same problems were being raised about assembly languages, and C addressed them with types and structures (which are, aft

OTOH C was invented because these exact same problems were being raised about assembly languages, and C addressed them with types and structures (which are, after all, abstractions to help the programmer allocate and manage resources). And, before that, the assembly languages were addressing that problem with machine code. No doubt in 10 years (whom am I kidding -- 10 months) whatever replaces Javascript will make the same complaints about it that this does about C. Personally I find C pretty elegant for what it is, and it's the only thing I would use for serial comm programming, and since that's what I do mostly...