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C is not a low-level language

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Your computer is not a fast PDP-11.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 7
          July 2018
          90 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/3234519
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