I really like your first point, paraphrasing, that 'C is how the PDP-11 worked, then'. But as for now, I don't agree that most people writing C are in any way r

I really like your first point, paraphrasing, that 'C is how the PDP-11 worked, then'. But as for now, I don't agree that most people writing C are in any way really aware of this shift. Instead, I think C is how the computer works is their abstraction level. Unless your homepage is Godbolt's Compiler Explorer [1], you see C, you think C, moreso if it's C++. [1] https://godbolt.org/ https://godbolt.org/