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Re:This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem by nineteen999 on Thursday December 02, 2021 @07:31AM (#29415289)
There were plenty of first movers before UNIX and C, and later C++. They didn't stick. Now, step up to the plate and fix it.
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Re:This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem by pjmlp on Thursday December 02, 2021 @08:35AM (#29415885)
It is hard to stick against free beer OS, available with source code.

Had UNIX been a comercial endevour and it would have failed, unfortunely it wasn't the case, and now C plagues the industry.

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