I know this article has been up a few times already on HN. What I think Steve is missing is that all modern computer hardware is designed around how C works! 40

I know this article has been up a few times already on HN. What I think Steve is missing is that all modern computer hardware is designed around how C works! 40 years ago you might have had hardware in which there was a real mismatch between how it worked and C worked. Not so much these days. How C works and how x86-64 assembly works is very similar. Of course, that is not the whole story and you could argue that how x86-64 assembly works is not how the "computer" works because it is a high-level abstraction of the CPU... But then what does it mean to talk about how the computer works?