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A comment on Ask HN: If Unix is written in C, how did they run C before Unix?. Parent comment
Originally BCPL wasn't going to be used for anything beyond bootstraping the CPL compiler, eventually it took a life of its own.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPL_(programming_language)
There is some irony that for UNIX workloads we are stuck with the evolution of a language whose main purpose was only to bootstrap a compiler and be done with it.
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Originally BCPL wasn't going to be used for anything beyond bootstraping the CPL compiler, eventually it took a life of its own.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPL_(programming_language)
There is some irony that for UNIX workloads we are stuck with the evolution of a language whose main purpose was only to bootstrap a compiler and be done with it.