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Re:C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness by mcguire on Friday August 18, 2023 @06:57PM (#37183198)
How many Lisp Machines did Texas Instruments sell? (I mean outside of that one lab at UT Austin.) :-)

I'm talking about applications developers who came out of the small mainframe/minicomputer world of the 70s and into the workstation/microcomputer world of the 80s. They started with assembly, and prying them off of it was as hard as convincing engineers to use FORTRAN. Convincing those application developers to use a garbage collected language, Java, was hard in the 90s.

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