26 Jun
2018
26 Jun
'18
10:33 p.m.
On Tuesday, June 26, 2018, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 05:54:32PM -0400, Ronald
Natalie wrote:
flexibility in
deciding what the programmer intended and how to
automatically optimize for the platform.
David Chisnall is known for pushing Go as a next generation C. He even
wrote a book about it. I think he has a point in saying that Go was
created as direct remedy to many things in C. Most of it features come
from decades of experience working with C, and seeing ways in which it can
be improved.
--Andy
So I agree, had the same initial reaction. But I read the paper a
second time and the point about Fortran, all these years later, still
being a thing resonated. The hardware guys stand on their heads to
give us coherent caches.
Fortran is a higher level language. It gives he compiler more C is often a ???You asked for it, you got it???
type paradigm/
I think you are more or less agreeing with the author. (I also think, as
Unix die hards, we all bridle a little when anyone dares to say anything
negative about C. We should resist that if it gets in the way of making
things better.)
The author at least has me thinking about how you could make a C like
language that didn't ask as much from the hardware.
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