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Isn't the whole point is to make sure the abstraction always work ?

• Igglyboo 12y ago
  Isn't the whole point of C to have as minimal abstraction as possible?
  • Snaipe 12y ago
    Not really, otherwise even the standard library would not exist, and we would manually ask pages to the kernel every time we want memory. C, as a language, is indeed low level, but that does not mean that programs and libraries shouldn't build abstractions on top of the low level interface.
  • Retra 12y ago
    Not at all. The point of C is to have as much abstraction as possible while still allowing maximal control. And 'as much abstraction as possible' is a matter of historical context, since we learn all the time that there are better ways of doing abstraction than C does.