i feel that the grammar of a programming language is among the least appropriate of all possible facets of its behavior to start off with. why on earth would i care about your preferred tokens to represent concepts which have not yet been defined
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@hipsterelectron "Already low-level interface"
... What? Malloc (presumably the "Library Call" he means) is an abstraction (heap) playing with abstractions (Arenas, Blocks/Superblocks, threads, whatever), and often passing through other layers of abstraction like virtual memory...
Like, sure it's low-level compared to like... python, I guess?
But from the perspective of assembly & actual hardware interaces; most implementations of malloc() & co. are very high level...
