C: too high-level for hardware people, too low-level for software people.
Harmony through mutual discomfort.
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@fribbledom It was only when learning Julia and discovering that it's C FFI's Cint type maps to Int32 on x86_64 that I came upon the cursed knowledge that despite everything C did to make `int` "the processor word" type, it was still so ingrained as a 32-bit type that it remained so even on 64-bit architectures.
