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C was great... for the PDP-11. Nowadays, not so much. Computers are multiple orders of magnitude faster, have multiple orders of magnitude more memory and stor
by baq 11mo ago
C was great... for the PDP-11.
Nowadays, not so much. Computers are multiple orders of magnitude faster, have multiple orders of magnitude more memory and storage and do things multiple orders of magnitude more complex than they used to. Portable assembly still has its uses obviously, but safer/easier/faster alternatives exist in all its niches.
- flohofwoe 11mo ago> Portable assembly still has its uses obviously C is much closer to any other high level language than it is to assembly. 'Portable assembly' might have been true with trivial C compilers of the 70s and 80s, but not with compilers like gcc or clang.
- drnick1 11mo ago> Computers are multiple orders of magnitude faster, have multiple orders of magnitude more memory and storage And C is still the best way to talk to the hardware in a portable way.