Functional programming sounds like a good idea until you realize computers are stateful machines.
@miria assembly is also an abstraction but you don't often see people advocating the use of handwritten machine code
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@KayFaraday @miria C is essentially handwritten machine code that's not AIDS to write. It maps to assembly very well
@applejack @KayFaraday @miria until you decide to do simd or check the overflow bits