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Re:C Is Not a Low-Level Language by pjmlp on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @02:36AM (#16974628)
Actually if you read IBM's research papers on RISC, their PL/8 compiler toolchain was pretty much like how LLVM kind of looks like, just on the 70's.
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Re:C Is Not a Low-Level Language by dnautics on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @04:17PM (#16980786)
no doubt, but popularity and timing matters.
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