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Re:Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”? by hsivonen on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @03:37PM (#18124992)
On hardware level, all those use von Neumann architecture. Wasm, however, exposes Harvard architecture (implemented on top on von Neumann machines). Yet, you can compile C to Wasm, which is a data point about how abstract C is: so abstract that it can target Harvard architecture despite targeting just von Neumann architecture being sufficient for targeting modern hardware.

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