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Discussion on: Is C still a high level language?

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Sergey Zubkov

It's becoming more of a high level language as time moves on and hardware evolves in ways C programming model doesn't account for (GPUs etc), while compilers evolve to take better advantage of C's abstractions (e.g. compilers remove calls to memset because they are "useless" under C model even if the programmer thought they were wiping out a password from memory)