You can apparently blame C for the belief that a programmer should have to optimize code themselves. Though I'm waiting for the itanium/ILP optimized haskell c

You can apparently blame C for the belief that a programmer should have to optimize code themselves. Though I'm waiting for the itanium/ILP optimized haskell compiler. It's one of the few languages that tracks side effects enough that it seems possible to actually build the "sufficiently smart compiler" that Intel always claimed would materialize to make itanium a good idea.