[pjmlp]

Only if you ignore all the compiler extensions, that everyone that doesn't care about reading the standard, thinks are part of C.

Get ready for K&R compatibility removal on C23, with improved generics, type inference and lambdas probably landing on C26.

C is actually a good example, given that it shares authors with Go, which at the time also decided to ignore what systems programming languages have been doing since 1958 outside Bell Labs.

[erik_seaberg]

C was barely feasible on a PDP-11, so I can forgive it a lot, but we can afford powerful languages now that CPUs are thousands of times faster while brains are pretty much the same.

[jjtheblunt]

What do you mean barely feasible? C is basically a slightly abstracted/elevated syntax with a particular calling convention on assembly language, and PDP-11 is just a computer (that i remember too).

[erik_seaberg]

I’m under the impression that the speed and memory of their PDP-11 were barely enough to run their C compiler, considering that Emacs was considered a heavyweight app and S-Algol had to target a virtual machine instead of native code.

[jjtheblunt]

virtual machines are native code. if you google pdp-11 C you'll get all sorts of interesting articles from 40ish years ago.