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Nate Cull @natecull@mastodon.social

The C stands for Cthulhu

queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=32

"C Is Not a Low-level Language:
Your computer is not a fast PDP-11"

Nate Cull @natecull@mastodon.social

"Hey let's make a parallel hardware machine and then expose its parallelism as insanely complicated compiler transformations of a 1970-era serial machine and THEN on top of THAT fake serial machine, build parallel systems that have to implement THEIR parallelism through insanely complicated compiler transforms down to that fake serial machine."

"Ok, but ALSO, let's take all those parallel hardware machines and gigabytes of operating system stack and implement THOSE as completely fake machines!"

Nate Cull @natecull@mastodon.social

<< Some dead code has now been transformed into undefined behavior.>>

Lots of movies about that scenario now.

mediocrity estate @swizzard

@natecull that's basically the plot of westworld

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