ESR on post-C landscape

[Ola Fosheim Grostad]

On Thursday, 16 November 2017 at 18:06:22 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 at 16:38:58 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
> Grostad wrote:
>> 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.

No, I am talking about the actual hardware, not UB. In the 80s 
there was almost 1-to-1 correspondence between C and CPU 
internals. CPUs are still designed for C, but the more code shift 
away from C, the more rewarding it will be for hardware designers 
to move to more parallell designs.