> ultra-high-level language like C LOL, thanks for the reminder that most of my career has been spent up in the stratosphere, towers upon towers of abstraction

> ultra-high-level language like C LOL, thanks for the reminder that most of my career has been spent up in the stratosphere, towers upon towers of abstractions. Started re-learning C during pandemia for embedded systems and microcontrollers, feeling freer as I go deeper down the stack. Got into Lisp interpreter, then compiler and assembler. Had a chance to study eForth in this post, and it can get real close to the metal. > need ridiculously powerful processors to run a C compiler That's one thing I noticed while getting familiar with C, that it's a huge effort to write a compiler in itself. Whereas Lisp and Forth even more, creating a variant/subset of the language from scratch is an exercise for every student. These languages are hidden gems, even though they play such important roles in the history of computer science. They are relevant, perhaps now more than ever when people are losing touch with the ground, the basics of code and computation.