> Your perspective is interesting because I'm old enough to remember when the C Language was considered bloat compared to just writing it in assembly language.

> Your perspective is interesting because I'm old enough to remember when the C Language was considered bloat compared to just writing it in assembly language. Both perspectives are correct for their respective times. Compilers were much dumber in 80. These days your GUI desktop program written in assembly language would probably run slower than written in C and compiled with modern gcc O2.