[pmarin]

The C way is to avoid abstractions in first place.

[pjmlp]

Yet it is one in itself, otherwise UNIX would still be written in Assembly.

[seanw444]

Assembly itself is an abstraction. UNIX should have been written in machine code.

[pjmlp]

It was until version 4, when the C rewrite took place as it wasn't fun to keep writing it in Assembly.

[seanw444]

Assembly code != machine code

[pjmlp]

Depends if you have an Assembler at hand, or a plain hexdump monitor, hopefully with a checksum entry on each row.