My Long Term Vision for the D programming language

[forkit]

On Friday, 19 November 2021 at 06:26:09 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> 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.

C represents a workable (and portable) abstraction of hardware.

Would you rather be programming in a language that requires you 
to send a command to trigger 5 volts along a specific wire, so 
you can read or store ... one bit? (and even that is an 
abstraction).