Translators

The way to get rid of C & Sepples hegemony is through translators. Whenever you invent a new and much better language, you just invent a translator from C & Sepples to your new language. Then anyone will be able to completely replace their legacy shit-language code and C, C++, Java etc will quickly die off.

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Pointer synthesis. Common example in CCAN's htable module, where hash bits and the perfect bit are stored in common bits of the hash table's entries. This requires that the language have a way to recover a valid data pointer from a bit-pattern that's identical to one that a data pointer was converted to.

(and if this sounds like a trivial-as-shit matter, imagine a hideous corporate 80s semi-mainframe with segmented memory where a "far" address is 40 bits, but native wordsize is only 32...)