...how processors are structured today But it admits that processors today are structured to look like processors of the mid-80s (even though they definitely a

...how processors are structured today But it admits that processors today are structured to look like processors of the mid-80s (even though they definitely aren't). Today's processors have lower levels than but those lower aren't intended to be accessed by ordinary programs using any language. Maybe that's a bad thing but we've migrated to a very different argument here. Maybe, they're saying we could have processors which wouldn't emulate the PDP-11. Sure, maybe we could. Like say, Nvdia GPUs programmed using the cuda system, which is based on ... C++, which also "isn't a low level language". I mean GPU definitely have emerged as alternate way to use the bizillion transistors of modern chips but broadly, I don't see this as invalidating C (or c++) as a next-step-up-from-assembly level of programming. I mean, the reality is C actually is used in all sorts of complicated memory spaces and chips, often mixed with assembler. IE, the "not low level" claim still is kind of a troll imo.