Indeed! I recently hacked up a considerable amount of assembly and used a lot of tricks that would not be possible unless I used copious gotos in C and also non

Indeed! I recently hacked up a considerable amount of assembly and used a lot of tricks that would not be possible unless I used copious gotos in C and also non-standard tail-call optimization. Some tricks (like writing inline/out-of-line codepaths) quite literally are not possible in C.