[Haskell-cafe] Re: In-place modification

[Aaron Denney]

On 2007-07-10, Creighton Hogg <wchogg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> No, of course not.  But the most popular architectures support C with
>> /much smaller/ efforts of compiler writers.
>
>
> Now is this just because of the relative simplicity of C, because of a
> larger amount of collective experience in writing C compilers, or something
> else entirely

Because of the (relatively) close match between C and currently popular
styles of hardware.

-- 
Aaron Denney
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