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Sure, and C is a convenience wrapper around assembly and assembly is a convenience wrapper around toggling octal codes on your front panel and punching in octal code is a convenience wrapper around rewiring vacuum tubes and relays and that's a convenience wrapper around mechanical cogs and that's a convenience wrapper around an abacus.

But it's a different paradigm than procedural programming and embracing it might lead to a different mind set.

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Lol. IMO the difference between an C and Assembly (as between vacuum tubes and the abacus) is really a difference in power, since it allows the same program to be implemented on different architechtures. It's only fair to start calling things convenience wrappers once you get past C. And often enough, an abstraction aimed at convenience leads to a reduction in expressive power.

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