Talk on what a systems programming language needs to replace C

[welkam]

On Tuesday, 27 August 2019 at 15:54:31 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> C is a fairly good portable assembler
No its not. C needs a lot of built in compiler 
macros/functions/extensions to have enough control over generated 
assembler. But at this time people dont make distinction between 
a language and compiler provided additions to the language.