I guess the hope of high-level languages is that you can build a more interesting vocabulary from complex concepts. http://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2012/08/27/tabasco-s

I guess the hope of high-level languages is that you can build a more interesting vocabulary from complex concepts. http://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2012/08/27/tabasco-sort-super-optimal-merge-sort/ http://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2012/08/27/tabasco-sort-super-optimal... It seems that there's a lot of effort going into making languages, "faster than C." Perhaps we would all be better off working with languages that just give us better abstractions -- user vocabularies. Layers on layers. Don't get me wrong, C is the right language and a good tool for many situations. It's just that if you're going to extend the vocabulary then why do you have to change the implementation? If you want to optimize why optimize the compiler at such a low level? Either way I just want to say that it's an interesting conversation and I'm looking forward to seeing more.