Comment on Why I Always End Up Going Back to CparentComments−theamk7moI think you are being nitpicky here.When most people say "I write in C", they don't mean abstract ISO C standard, with the possibility of CHAR_BIT=9. They mean "C for my machine" - so C with compiler extensions, assumptions about memory model, and yes, occasional inline assembly.−pjmlp7moI am, because people making C something special that it isn't.Other languages share the same features.
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I think you are being nitpicky here.
When most people say "I write in C", they don't mean abstract ISO C standard, with the possibility of CHAR_BIT=9. They mean "C for my machine" - so C with compiler extensions, assumptions about memory model, and yes, occasional inline assembly.
I am, because people making C something special that it isn't.
Other languages share the same features.