Let’s Stop Bashing C

Re:Let’s Stop Bashing C by gnipgnip on Friday December 02, 2016 @10:20AM (#13089231)

Alan Kay in his famous OOPSLA talk mentions how the architecture itself leads to these language choices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY

He mentions how Xerox PARC machines with tagged architectures from the 80s were only 1/50 the speed of the x86 systems in '97. This, in contrast to the 50000x increase in computing power over the same time frame.

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Re:Let’s Stop Bashing C by adamnemecek on Friday December 02, 2016 @11:04AM (#13089694)

Can anyone recommend any resources on older architectures? Alan also talks about the Burroughs CPUs but idk how one would go about learning about those these days.

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Re:Let’s Stop Bashing C by nickpsecurity on Friday December 02, 2016 @11:57AM (#13090225)

Im at work but these two should be a nice start:

https://www.smecc.org/The%20Architecture%20%20of%20the%20Bur...

http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/

Bitsavers and Wikipedia are good resources. The summaries of most on Wikipedia are accurate enough with references to get more authorative information on. I found a lot of it that way.

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