Re:On the history and justification of the C programming lan...
by stcredzero on Thursday August 18, 2016 @02:15PM
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Higher-level languages avoid this by hiding it in a platform-specific compiler or VM, which in turn limits the number of platforms the code can actually be run on.
False. Squeak Smalltalk runs with a bit-identical model on a ridiculous number of platforms. (which is to say OS/ISA combinations) Though to be fair, it accomplished this trick by having the VM written in a Smalltalk subset that gets translated into C, which is then compiled by local compilers.
False. Squeak Smalltalk runs with a bit-identical model on a ridiculous number of platforms. (which is to say OS/ISA combinations) Though to be fair, it accomplished this trick by having the VM written in a Smalltalk subset that gets translated into C, which is then compiled by local compilers.