[TUHS] PDP-11 legacy, C, and modern architectures

[Ronald Natalie]

> 
> So I agree, had the same initial reaction.  But I read the paper a 
> second time and the point about Fortran, all these years later, still
> being a thing resonated.  The hardware guys stand on their heads to
> give us coherent caches.  

Fortran is a higher level language.    It gives he compiler more flexibility in deciding what the programmer intended and how to automatically optimize for the platform.
C is often a “You asked for it, you got it” type paradigm/