You have completely misunderstood my comment about why C stands out. I though it was obvious from the example I gave, what I meant, when I said everything is a

You have completely misunderstood my comment about why C stands out. I though it was obvious from the example I gave, what I meant, when I said everything is a pointer to something? As an embedded developer in previous life, I can assure you C is not special because it can run on bare metal. Many other languages can too.