ESR on post-C landscape

[Patrick Schluter]

On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 at 16:38:58 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 at 11:55:17 UTC, codephantom wrote:
>> [...]
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> Well, in another thread he talked about the Tango split, so not 
> sure where he is coming from.
>
>> [...]
>
> No, the starting point for C++ was that Simula is better for a 
> specific kind of modelling than C.
>
>> [...]
>
> It is flawed... ESR got that right, not sure how anyone can 
> disagree. The only thing C has going for it is that CPU designs 
> have been adapted to C for decades. But that is changing. C no 
> longer models the hardware in a reasonable manner.
>
Because of the flawed interpretation of UB by the compiler 
writers, not because of a property of the language itself.