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by adwn 1636 days ago
> C lacks any high level abstractions. All the abstractions it does offer are [...]

By that standard, practically all languages lack high level abstractions. Garbage collection? Hides pointer chasing and marking of memory locations. Dynamic dispatch? Hides a pointer to a function table. Functional programming? Hides pointers to closures. Closures? Hide pointers to data and function pointers.