My Long Term Vision for the D programming language

[Patrick Schluter]

On Friday, 19 November 2021 at 02:36:31 UTC, forkit wrote:
> On Friday, 19 November 2021 at 00:38:15 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>
>> I think that statement itself is deceptive. C is not all that 
>> close to how modern hardware actually operates.
>
> I mean the abstraction of the C memory model...
>
> i.e. " ..one or more contiguous sequences of bytes. Each byte 
> in memory has a unique address." This is still an appropriate 
> abstraction, even in modern times.

Funny that x86 real mode contradicts that definition. Each byte 
had 4096 different possible addresses.

>
> When working at a low-level, this is still, even today, an 
> appropriate and suitable abstraction, on which to build your 
> ideas.
>
> No language can model 'actual hardware', and even if it could, 
> the human brain could never use such a language.