One of the odd things about C, historically speaking, is actually how impoverished it was compared to macro assemblers written at around the same time. Those d

One of the odd things about C, historically speaking, is actually how impoverished it was compared to macro assemblers written at around the same time. Those didn't have much of a type system either, but you could get all kinds of power with them. No modern assembler is really comparable, much to my dismay.