“C lovers” love the appearance of understanding what happens. At the end of the day they still feed their programs to awe inspiring optimizing compilers. Sure,

“C lovers” love the appearance of understanding what happens. At the end of the day they still feed their programs to awe inspiring optimizing compilers. Sure, they can probably explain what any snippet of code in their program does, but they can’t tell what, if anything, from that snippet is executed by the machine.