Chisnall's article. A lot of the general criticism would still apply if you replace "PDP-11" with "von Neumann architecture" which makes the whole thing a bit weird. But also many specific comments about C are bit off (the cost of copying padding, the sequencing, provenance, etc.)
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Chisnall's article. A lot of the general criticism would still apply if you replace "PDP-11" with "von Neumann architecture" which makes the whole thing a bit weird. But also many specific comments about C are bit off (the cost of copying padding, the sequencing, provenance, etc.)