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Re:C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness by pjmlp on Friday August 18, 2023 @04:06PM (#37181374)
Only inside Bell Labs, the world outside was enjoying high level systems programming languages since 1958 with the introduction of JOVIAL.
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Re:C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness by mcguire on Friday August 18, 2023 @07:20PM (#37183422)
Where by "the world outside" you mean DoD contractors?
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Re:C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness by pjmlp on Saturday August 19, 2023 @02:55AM (#37186251)
Everyone that was using JOVIAL, ESPOL, PL/I, PL/S, PL/X, PL.8, PL/M, Mesa, ALGOL 60 and 68 based languages, Modula-2, Solo Pascal, Concurrent Pascal, Lisp, BASIC compilers,....

Burroughs, IBM, DEC, Xerox, ETHZ, MIT, Intel,....

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