> You're right. But that wasn't my point. My point was that C isn't the close-to-the-machine language that many programmers think it is. It is, but what happen

> You're right. But that wasn't my point. My point was that C isn't the close-to-the-machine language that many programmers think it is. It is, but what happened though, is that assembly/machine language no longer is as close to the real machine as it was in the past, it is an abstraction on top of micro code. The high level languages that you mentioned are further away, and competition abstracted away from the assembly.