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Only marginally lower, but a common example is Ada.

You can actually describe hardware registers sanely and portably in Ada. You cannot do that in C.

(It obviously still works, because C is ubiquitous, and so processor and compiler vendors do their hardest to "make it work", but that's no accomplishment of C)



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