Sepples, Java, and Python are terrible

>>http://home.comcast.net/~tom_forsyth/blog.wiki.html#[[Data%20Oriented%20Luddites]]
But what I do want to make is a meta-comment. The DOD folk are widely seen as a bunch of ninja curmudgeon bit-heads. Although I think they'd probably be quite proud of that label, the image it conveys is of folks who can hand-tune any assembly routine known to man but loathe anything higher-level than C99. They can argue about set associativity, DTLB walking and tell you how many clock cycles it is to main memory. Which is all very clever, but if you don't know that stuff they think you're Not A Well Rounded Programmer, and if you use the word "virtual" they'll commence much wailing and gnashing of teeth. In the other corner we have hipsters coming out of university courses with heads full of Java and Python and looking blankly at you when you talk about bitfield manipulation and the justifiable use of "goto". When you say "compile" they think you mean "tokenize", and they regard exception-handling as part of standard control flow rather than an admission of failure in code design.
Of course we should all switch to LISP

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I don't much about it. Elaborate.

Abstract

This document is a reference manual for the LLVM assembly language. LLVM is a Static Single Assignment (SSA) based representation that provides type safety, low-level operations, flexibility, and the capability of representing 'all' high-level languages cleanly. It is the common code representation used throughout all phases of the LLVM compilation strategy.
Introduction

The LLVM code representation is designed to be used in three different forms: as an in-memory compiler IR, as an on-disk bitcode representation (suitable for fast loading by a Just-In-Time compiler), and as a human readable assembly language representation. This allows LLVM to provide a powerful intermediate representation for efficient compiler transformations and analysis, while providing a natural means to debug and visualize the transformations. The three different forms of LLVM are all equivalent. This document describes the human readable representation and notation.

The LLVM representation aims to be light-weight and low-level while being expressive, typed, and extensible at the same time. It aims to be a "universal IR" of sorts, by being at a low enough level that high-level ideas may be cleanly mapped to it (similar to how microprocessors are "universal IR's", allowing many source languages to be mapped to them). By providing type information, LLVM can be used as the target of optimizations: for example, through pointer analysis, it can be proven that a C automatic variable is never accessed outside of the current function, allowing it to be promoted to a simple SSA value instead of a memory location.

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Pfth, Go-to and exceptions are both failures in design. It's just that the first one is extremely valuable when it comes to stuff like compilers.