Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team
by inkyoto on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @09:57AM
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6502 and Z80 had not existed yet when C was begot for the PDP-11 architecture.
Yes – historically – C has never been a perfect fit for 8-bit architectures as it had been conceived for a 16-bit architecture. So what? There are C compilers for 68HC08 68HC11 MCU's as well.
Yet, C has outlived «many languages offering the same "low level" capabilities of C».
Yes – historically – C has never been a perfect fit for 8-bit architectures as it had been conceived for a 16-bit architecture. So what? There are C compilers for 68HC08 68HC11 MCU's as well.
Yet, C has outlived «many languages offering the same "low level" capabilities of C».