Re:Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C
by bluejekyll on Monday July 02, 2018 @09:57AM
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> if C is so bad, why is everyone using it?
Don't confuse success for correctness, survivorship bias is something to consider here. As others will surely point out, when C was written, there were other languages available at the time that were as fast, but much safer.
In many ways C won, because Unix won, to talk about them separately ignores how important both were to each others success. (Yes, other operating systems adopted C as well, but Unix is it's foundation)
Don't confuse success for correctness, survivorship bias is something to consider here. As others will surely point out, when C was written, there were other languages available at the time that were as fast, but much safer.
In many ways C won, because Unix won, to talk about them separately ignores how important both were to each others success. (Yes, other operating systems adopted C as well, but Unix is it's foundation)