C-Based languages

C is an amazingly designed language.  It's beautiful, simple, elegant and fast.
Everything a well designed programming language should be.

C++ then came along and shit all over Dennis Ritchie's masterpiece.  Bjarne took a beautiful, simple, elegant and fast language. And kept shitting on it until all that was left was 'fast'.  Dennis should of beat the shit out of him for turning his work of art into an abomination.

Then Gosling came along, surveyed the turd that Bjarne had dropped, and attempted to clean it up.    He redesigned C++ to remove the crap and attain the elegance that C had.  Unfortunately, in his cleaning frenzy, he over-simplified the language and sacrificed speed.  In the name of simplicity he removed pointers, manual memory management,  generics, operator overloading and native code compilation.  A noble effort, but ultimately just as much of a failure as C++.

>>70
It could still eliminate "dead code", and then realign things later on with NOPs itself.

I don't understand why it would use instructions that are potentially way more expensive than a NOP just to align data so I think it's just shitty codegen but there you go.

>>71
Yes it does exist, and you're fucking retarded if it says that it "defeats the purpose". The purpose of an assembler is to assemble assembly code into opcodes, how it does it is just an implementation detail.