> Compilers should be dumb, fast and predictable instead. That way, everyone gets what they deserve.
This is what gave us C, while the rest of the mainframe world was busy using Algol, PL/I, Fortran and Lisp dialects. Where many of the compilers already were capable of doing bounds checking elision.
This is what gave us C, while the rest of the mainframe world was busy using Algol, PL/I, Fortran and Lisp dialects. Where many of the compilers already were capable of doing bounds checking elision.