You must be thinking of c++? There is no object in C just structs which is just a little bit of organization of the contiguous memory. C exists to make writing

You must be thinking of c++? There is no object in C just structs which is just a little bit of organization of the contiguous memory. C exists to make writing portable CPU level software easier than assembler. It was astonishingly successful at this niche; many more people could write printer drivers. While ptr types may not formally exist in assembly, the variety of addressing modes using registers or locations that are also integers has a natural resonance with ptr and array types. I would say C precisely likes to mirror everything even where it is unhelpful and dangerous. The spirit is captured in the Hole Hawg article: http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html It is the same sort of fun one has with self modifying code (JIT compilers) or setting 1 to have a value of 2 in Python. ed: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/object https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/object is what is being referred to. I'm still pretty sure in the 80s and 90s people thought of and used C as a portable low-level language, which is why things like Python and Linux were written in C.