> Which is, all things considered, not that great a criticism, seeing as how few modern languages are terribly optimized for these cases either.
This is true with a but; it's true in the extent that it's not like C gets it worse than the average high-level language, but the current selling point for C is that it's "close to the hardware" or "portable assembly" and the less that is true, the less strong C is.
This is true with a but; it's true in the extent that it's not like C gets it worse than the average high-level language, but the current selling point for C is that it's "close to the hardware" or "portable assembly" and the less that is true, the less strong C is.