I guess I'm arguing that it is a reasonable thing to say today in the right context. When I talk to web developers who don't understand anything about computer

I guess I'm arguing that it is a reasonable thing to say today in the right context. When I talk to web developers who don't understand anything about computer architecture for example it's much easier for me to tell them I'm a low level developer rather than explain that I design digital hardware (FPGA) and write drivers and firmware to interact with it. But I do agree that it's important developers know that C doesn't correspond to the CPU in the way they might mistakenly think it does