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Regarding your last point, while the ideas of Smalltalk and especially Lisp are influential, C may have just as much a claim to influence. Both Lisp and C are b
by rudiger 15y ago
Regarding your last point, while the ideas of Smalltalk and especially Lisp are influential, C may have just as much a claim to influence. Both Lisp and C are beautiful abstractions, the assembly languages of two abstract machines. While Lisp is powerful, C is such a profound success because the C abstract machine is very close to how computers actually work.
- JoachimSchipper 15y agoMore properly: "while Lisp is powerful, the C abstract machine has largely shaped how computers actually work".
- imd 15y agoI keep hearing that computers are diverging from the kind of architecture C maps to, though. What of that?
- Jach 15y agoSee for example: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/reduceron/ http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/reduceron/