>understand what's beneath their abstractions C has nothing to do with this. C is a quirky old high-level language which has nothing to do with underlying abst

>understand what's beneath their abstractions C has nothing to do with this. C is a quirky old high-level language which has nothing to do with underlying abstractions, i.e. with how the machine works. If you want to learn what's beneath, you open a machine manual and read it.