Re:Ubuntu Systemd Vulnerability
by pjmlp on Thursday June 29, 2017 @02:38AM
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Actually it was the adoption of GNU/Linux and *BSD that increased the adoption of C, given that they are UNIX systems.
Back when GNU/Linux was still at 0.x versions, the OS industry was starting to move to C++. Even though Mac OS, OS/2 and Windows APIs and kernel were written in C, everyone was using C++ with PowerPlant, OWL, MFC, CSet++ or languages like Object Pascal.
OS like Symbian and BeOS were even fully written in C++.
But the adoption of GNU/LInux and BSD with the sacred C, meant everyone that wanted to play ball need to use C instead, so the adoption grew and here we are.
Back when GNU/Linux was still at 0.x versions, the OS industry was starting to move to C++. Even though Mac OS, OS/2 and Windows APIs and kernel were written in C, everyone was using C++ with PowerPlant, OWL, MFC, CSet++ or languages like Object Pascal.
OS like Symbian and BeOS were even fully written in C++.
But the adoption of GNU/LInux and BSD with the sacred C, meant everyone that wanted to play ball need to use C instead, so the adoption grew and here we are.