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Re:45 years since its creation. The C language still very po... by jandrese on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @01:45PM (#11763753)
5 million lines really isn't that much in the grand scheme of things.
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Re:45 years since its creation. The C language still very po... by nickpsecurity on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @01:59PM (#11763941)
It's not a lot. Yet, it's extra code extending critical apps with billions of lines of code and running more transactions than Google does searches. That's a large impact in the grand scheme of things.

Also, how much C was being written in UNIX 1.0 days outside of ports of same, exact software? :P

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