Very nicely written. A literary paper on a computer language. That's old school like C itself.<p>"Balloonists continue to do what looks to be “the right thing”, creating new worlds. Down around the shore, these new worlds remains out of reach."<p>Related: Architecture Astronaut<p>Link to the balloonist religious man referred to in the article who was never seen again:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelir_Ant%C3%B4nio_de_Carli" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelir_Ant%C3%B4nio_de_Carli</a>
I appreciate the work put into typesetting the C code. It makes the examples look quite elegant.<p>EDIT: Having finished reading, I do prefer compilers being straightforward to being clever. The Go compiler is one example of a compiler which follows this school, Pascal and Delphi are as well.