On 23/04/18 17:48, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> Modern languages usually shrink or eliminate the set of undefined
> behavior compared to C, meaning this issue doesn’t arise; but nobody
> thinks any of them are ‘portable assembler’ despite the more
> comprehensible mapping from source code to semantics l-)

Perhaps that is why modern code seems to be so ill designed.

I learned to 'think in assembler', and I still do, and my code is
usually tight and low bug content.

When I write C I am thinking in termns of memory locations, pointers and
registers, not 'objects'



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