As far as I understood what I do about C, is that most of C's here called "quirks" have actually been enablers for much of the portability and performance of modern platforms. Therefore I don't like "undefined behavior" and the like being criticised for being such a "hindrance". I hence doubt the author's familiarity with C is much beyond the basics, which kind of makes the case for why the author also had to namedrop Spectre and Meltdown, which were caused by the fact that later optimizations were unsound, ie. the Tomasulo algorithm.

The problematic with the article somewhat remind me of the problems with LCTHW, and that the author of LCTHW was unable to figure out what the deal was about had been admitted by themselves. https://zedshaw.com/2015/01/04/admitting-defeat-on-kr-in-lct... Sorry to re-repost this article again. I just somewhat perceive two variants same "smells" in both.