Comment by zvrba

What'd I tell to Bjarne:

- In the future, you'll carry in your pocket a computer more powerful than the sum of all computers currently present at the university

- The unchecked flat memory model of C will cause numerous security issues with sometimes grave consequences in the "real world"

- Follow the design of Standard ML (SML) and adapt it to systems programming (yeah, it appeared in 1983, but surely papers have been published before that)

- Do not even think about using unsigned types for sizes and get rid of implicit numeric conversions: if (v.size() - 1 < 0) fails on empty vector in today's C++

- Deterministic resource management is still important and is _the_ feature that C++ gets praised for.

- Lack of standard ABI will cause a lot of headaches and lost time.

- I would tell him about LLVM IR, .NET assemblies, metadata and encourage him to first standardize an intermediate format which the compiler could read and write. That'd ensure seamless interoperability between compilers and even other languages.

- Related to the above point: the header/source split will become a burden.