The C stands for Cthulhu
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
"C Is Not a Low-level Language:
Your computer is not a fast PDP-11"
"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!"
@natecull I don’t pretend to wholly grok this essay, but did find it interesting.
> This adds a significant amount of complexity (and power consumption) to allow programmers to write mostly sequential code.
How much power, globally, is wasted in this way? Thanks.
