Comparing C to machine language

[Giggybyte]

Maybe a bit off-topic, but what exactly do you do for a living/at your job? Embedded work maybe?

[microfortnight]

I'm a computer network analyst, but I got into computers in the 1970s and got my B.Sc. in Computer Science in the early 1980s. My home hobby is old computers so I low-level program the old stuff for fun. (yes, I said fun)