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I'm not mixing them. Both are good to have foundations for why things are the way they are. Completely bypassing them is asinine. There's a reason in computer science a computer organization class is still teaches about assembly instructions going through pipelines.

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no one is against C or assembly, they are direct models of how machine works, they provide native access to underlying stuff.

the same can't be said for C++, e.g. its OO concept seemed to be cool back in the 90s, but after so many decades, at the core of a legacy language, it is now well known that OO is not the choice, modern languages no longer focus on OO for good reasons.

I encourage everyone to learn C, if they have time, learning ASM is also a good investment. At the same time, I think C++ should be depreciated.

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