On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 5:57 PM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:


> As the more and more features got added, the focus of the language changed
> ... ney Chisnall's 2018 screed: C is not a low level language
> <https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479>
>

Rereading that made me wonder: if someone retargeted an old compiler (pcc,
say) to produce i386 code, how much faster would it run than a VAX?  I see
that there is a pcc derivative at <http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/>, but supposedly
it has been heavily rewritten for C99 compliance and other things.

Not nearly as bad as the pile we got with 'modern' C++ [which I'm loath to
> use].
>

You should be.  It's loathsome.  :-)