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authorDavid Chisnall

C Is Not a Low-Level Language
From Communications of the ACM

C Is Not a Low-Level Language

Your computer is not a fast PDP-11.

No Such Thing as a General-Purpose Processor
From Communications of the ACM

No Such Thing as a General-Purpose Processor

And the belief in such a device is harmful.

The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability
From Communications of the ACM

The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability

Interfacing between languages is becoming more important

A New Objective-C Runtime
From Communications of the ACM

A New Objective-C Runtime: From Research to Production

Backward compatibility always trumps new features.
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