Comment by chacham15

I find this article to be disingenuous. Yes, C isnt "how a computer really works". Neither is assembly. The way a computer works is based off of transistors and some concepts built on top of that (ALUs for example). However, there is no need to know about any of that because you're presented with an abstraction (assembly). And thats really what people mean when they say C is closer to how a computer actually works: its a language with fewer abstractions than many others (most notably, its lack of garbage collection, object oriented behaviors, and a small runtime). That lack of abstraction means that you have to implement those concepts if you want to use them which will give you an understanding of how those abstractions work in the language that has them built in.