I remember her from the provocative comments in the interview quoted here. She said the C language was horrible for the the field of optimizing compilers: htt

I remember her from the provocative comments in the interview quoted here. She said the C language was horrible for the the field of optimizing compilers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15581319 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15581319 By 1960, we had a long list of amazing languages: Lisp, APL, Fortran, COBOL, Algol 60. These are higher-level than C. We have seriously regressed, since C developed. C has destroyed our ability to advance the state of the art in automatic optimization, automatic parallelization, automatic mapping of a high-level language to the machine.