Does any one have link to the source of the original Joe Armstrong’s JAM (Joe’s Abstract Machine) for the original #Erlang before BEAM came about? JAM was a stack machine, BEAM is a register Machine. Just trying to understand how it operated, I understand it did some interesting things with the stack. #stackmachines #abstractmachine #virtualmachine #programminglanguages

“For all the talk C programmers love to make about how ‘close to the metal’ they are, they never really were. — @thephd https://thephd.dev/c-undefined-behavior-and-the-sledgehammer-guideline #cProgramming #cLanguage #cplusplus #cpplang #programming #systemsProgramming #abstractMachine #undefinedBehavior #undefinedBehaviour

Exhibit A: your machine doesn't care where pointers come from, but C and C++ do https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2018/07/24/pointers-and-bytes.html #clanguage #cpplang #pointerProvenance #AbstractMachine #programming