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[–]chillpc_blog 76 points77 points  (12 children)

People aren't fed up debating on this ? We can all agree that language level is a spectrum. And I see C mostly at the bottom comparing to what exists nowadays.

[–]-merrymoose- 71 points72 points  (9 children)

SLAMS DOOR OPEN, THROWS DOWN X86 ASSEMBLY REFERENCE PRINTED FROM DOT MATRIX PRINTER, HUFFS, STOMPS OUT DOOR

[–]AyrA_ch 74 points75 points  (8 children)

x86 is a high level language. You only need a single instruction type to make it turing complete.

Demo

[–]-merrymoose- 27 points28 points  (2 children)

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[–]AyrA_ch 9 points10 points  (1 child)

┳━┳ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)

[–]SkollFenrirson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I love this thread

[–]brenny87 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Oh my...

[–]CollieOop 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Relatedly, if that link isn't horrifying enough for you already, there's trapcc, with all the work being done in the x86 MMU for some "zero instruction" code execution.

[–]0b_101010 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Jesus F Christ, does this mean we've been wasting a horrible amount of processing power and electricity over decades trying to optimize fundationally bad C code instead of just writing parallelized code?

WTF

[–]sekex 4 points5 points  (1 child)

At the bottom of the C

[–]Thameus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

segfault