> There is an implicit assumption, to my mind, that the user has a deeper understanding of what is behind the "curtain" that is created by the compiler. It's a

> There is an implicit assumption, to my mind, that the user has a deeper understanding of what is behind the "curtain" that is created by the compiler. It's also useful to remember that C is from a time when approximately everyone doing programming understood these things because you had to be exposed to lower level details.