> it's the closest you can get to understanding how computers work at a low level without dropping into asm. Though your points are pretty valid, the parent wa

> it's the closest you can get to understanding how computers work at a low level without dropping into asm. Though your points are pretty valid, the parent wasn't arguing that C was at the lowest level. Plus surely you can provide your own low level implementation of malloc and free for the platform and you'll still be programming C.