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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: technology discussion =?UTF-8?B?4oaS?= does the world need a
 "new" C ?
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2024 01:38:35 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 14:31:44 +0100, bart wrote:

> C also is the only language that is supposed to work on any kind of
> processor ...

I don’t think there is anything innate in the design of C to ensure that. 
It was simply its popularity that meant it was usually the first language 
implemented on a new processor.

For example, C assumes byte addressability. So that causes awkwardness on 
architectures like the PDP-10, for example. It just so happened such 
architectures became extinct at about the time the rise of 8-bit 
microprocessors (and their more advanced successors) made byte-
addressability essentially universal.