I mean, if you literally did what you said then that would mean using telnet and not encrypting your traffic in which case or course you are going to be comprom

I mean, if you literally did what you said then that would mean using telnet and not encrypting your traffic in which case or course you are going to be compromised...that was not designed for networks that were open and accessible to the public. I'm not sure you have made a point that at all addresses anything Jonathon said. You've constructed a straw man version of the arguments in favor of less abstraction, and more like older systems, which is rarely intended to mean using exactly the same network protocols from the 1980s. And at the time, those old programmers that criticized programming in C vs. Assembly were objectively correct. It was true that hand written assembly was significantly more efficient until very recently, as in I've seen common examples of such a thing well into the 21st century, and there still exist many cases where that is true. In the 80s and 90s it was the norm, and understood by most everybody (including the Unix developers despite having transitioned to C) that optimizing compilers could not compete in truly performance sensitive contexts. This did not really begin to change until everyone began to consolidate on x86. Until then, people were just willing to make the sacrifices but you couldn't have your cake and eat it too.