29 May
2020
29 May
'20
3:59 p.m.
Liam Proven wrote on Fri, 29 May 2020 14:20:53 +0200
And I have had earnest youngsters on Twitter and
elsewhere very
seriously tell me that _no_ language could even theoretically be
immune to the problems of C, because _all_ languages are implemented
in C at the lowest level.
The modern variation of the Turing Tarpit. At least they come to this
illusion honestly given that you even have people who think implementing
Forth in C is the way to go.
Of course, given that NAND2Tetris teaches them that everything is built
from NAND gates it would mean C can't go beyond the
limits of NANDs. Or
that since a microcoded processor has a little Harvard machine
inside it
can't do stuff that this architecture can't (like self modifying code).
Sometimes the way to gain something is to take away possibilities rather
than add them. This is not intuitive at all, but it is what levels of
abstraction are all about.
Back to the subject, it would be funny to see their reaction to the
sources for GWBASIC and the fact that it was NOT written in C.
-- Jecel