Very true. I counter this cross-platform assembly notion whenever I can as they&#x27;re not the same thing. One reason for its weirdness, also only assembly it&#x27;s tied to, is that it was specifically designed to utilize a PDP-11 well. It and anything depending on it is mapped to what makes sense on a PDP-11. We don&#x27;t use PDP-11&#x27;s today.<p>So, the C model neither makes sense nor matches assembler of today&#x27;s CPU&#x27;s. We&#x27;ve certainly developed ways to implement it efficiently. It wasn&#x27;t designed for that, though.