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sl1ckback··on C Is Not a Low-level Language: Your computer is not a fast PDP-11 (2018)
Low-level, high-level… such categorization is arbitrary semantics. An old and arbitrary IT meme, like vim vs emacs.

No useful outcomes are achieved through the debate. We learn nothing about a previously unknown capability of our technology or self structuring pointless taxonomy.

“Oh look a grammatically correct sentence.” is all this rises to.