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Ya gotta start somewhere, and just about every IC starts at some point with C.


IC?


Integrated Circuits.


Integrated circuits don't "start with C". What does that even mean? C is just an interchangeable language the compiler frontend parses.

A microprocessor starts by executing the machine code at the reset vector. This machine code is generated by an assembler or a compiler backend. It has no idea what programming languages are.




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