Re:On the history and justification of the C programming lan...
by emptybits on Thursday August 18, 2016 @01:32PM
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> This completely misses the key factor: (most) computers were not big or fast enough to run high level languages back then.
The first paragraph leads with that key factor: "Even back then, there were better languages/OS's that cheap hardware just hadn't caught up to. That cheap hardware's limitations, and them alone, drove the design decisions of BCPL, B, and then C."
The first paragraph leads with that key factor: "Even back then, there were better languages/OS's that cheap hardware just hadn't caught up to. That cheap hardware's limitations, and them alone, drove the design decisions of BCPL, B, and then C."