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Is a universal assembly language for all computers possible?

As noted, LLVM is the closest thing to this so far. A big barrier to a really universal language is going to be fundamental differences related to implicit tradeoffs: concurrency, memory use, through …
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What problems of procedural programming does OOP solve in practice?

In a procedural language you can't necessarily express restrictions that are required to prove that the caller is using a module in a supported fashion. In the absence of a compiler checkable restric …
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