> I was rather fond of the processor series -- byte pointers were NEAT,
> and if you really want to purge C, the fact that not all pointers are
> the same length on a PDP-6 or PDP-10 is a big frightening change for
> C programmers.

Well, sloppy C programmers.  There are a few of us who know better.

I've often considered building a gcc variant that deliberately breaks a
bunch of the sloppy assumptions people make - like that all pointers
are the same size, or that *(foo **)&bar_ptr == (foo *)bar_ptr....

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