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Re:Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”? by jcelerier on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:27PM (#18124319)
> computer does not need to implement a stack and a heap and have copy-based functions and so on.

AFAIK intel cpus have a hardware stack pointer

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Re:Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”? by steveklabnik on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:29PM (#18124338)
That's correct, but "does not need to implement" and "this kind of computer does implement" are not incompatible statements.
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