Wednesday 24 January 2024On Mastodon I wrote that I was tired of people saying, “you should learn C so you can understand how a computer really works.” I got a lot of replies which did not change my mind, but helped me understand more how abstractions are inescapable in computers.People made a number of claims. C was important because syscalls are defined in terms of C semantics (they are not). They said it was good for exploring limited-resource computers like Arduinos, but most people don’t p...