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Re:Curl is C by pjmlp on Monday March 27, 2017 @08:31AM (#13967118)
Historical accident, I started to work back in the days when UNIX was the only OS implemented in C.

Everything else outside UNIX was using Assembly, Algol, PL/I, Modula or Pascal dialect.

C owes its success to UNIX's adoption by the market, as operating system available almost free of charge to universities, with source code available.

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Re:Curl is C by davexunit on Monday March 27, 2017 @10:03AM (#13967763)
C was originally a watered down version of BCPL because the computers they were targeting had very limited capabilities compared to other computers of the time. The first version of C didn't even have floating point numbers.
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Re:Curl is C by pjmlp on Monday March 27, 2017 @11:48AM (#13968692)
Meanwhile in 1961 we had ESPOL, followed by NEWP, nowadays living on the Unisys MCP ClearPath mainframes.
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