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It's called attaining divinity (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] dmMeYourNudes@lemmynsfw.com 47 points 4 months ago

I am once again asking programmers to explain the joke

[-] azdle@news.idlestate.org 64 points 4 months ago

C was originally created as a "high-level" language, being more abstract (aka high-level) than the other languages at the time. But now it's basically considered very slightly more abstract than machine code when compared to the much higher level high-level languages we have today.

[-] Corbin@programming.dev 26 points 4 months ago

Other way around, actually; C was one of several languages proposed to model UNIX without having to write assembly on every line, and has steadily increased in abstraction. Today, C is specified relative to a high-level abstract machine and doesn't really resemble any modern processing units' capabilities.

Incidentally, coming to understand this is precisely what the OP meme is about.