I was just rummaging through some papers, and I ran into this one that seems pertinent—it highlights some important shortcomings of fancy languages when it comes to really performance-critical work:
J. Shapiro, Programming Language Challenges in Systems Codes: Why Systems Programmers Still Use C, and What to Do About Ithttp://www.bitc-lang.org/docs/papers/PLOS2006-shap.pdf
I was just rummaging through some papers, and I ran into this one that seems pertinent—it highlights some important shortcomings of fancy languages when it comes to really performance-critical work:
J. Shapiro, Programming Language Challenges in Systems Codes: Why Systems Programmers Still Use C, and What to Do About It
http://www.bitc-lang.org/docs/papers/PLOS2006-shap.pdf