My Long Term Vision for the D programming language

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 19 November 2021 at 03:40:59 UTC, forkit wrote:
> On Friday, 19 November 2021 at 02:54:08 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
>> On Friday, 19 November 2021 at 02:36:31 UTC, forkit wrote:
>>> Each byte in memory has a unique address.
>>
>> This is not true and has never been true, at least in the x86 
>> world.
>
> you're conflating memory addressing in hardware, and memory 
> addressing in software. I'm only interested in the software 
> abstraction (and even a description of the hardware addressing 
> is itself likely to be an abstraction).
>
> The software abstraction is the lowest level I want to go. 
> Which is an array of addressable memory. I build on that. I 
> don't need to go any lower.
>
> Ultimately, everything in the universe is an abstraction, at 
> some level or another.

C represents the hardware, except when it does not, got it.