In all low-level languages you don't pay for what you don't use; that's not a design tradition but a requirement of the domain. I'm talking about the tradition

In all low-level languages you don't pay for what you don't use; that's not a design tradition but a requirement of the domain. I'm talking about the tradition of a low-abstraction, low-level language that has many features so that, when it is read on the page it appears as if it were high-level.