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Re:Borgo Programming Language by erik_seaberg on Friday November 29, 2024 @03:36PM (#42276886)
Fitting a C compiler on a PDP-11 was an impressive achievement, but as a language it was a poor foundation to build anything reliable, and we still live with the consequences.
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Re:Borgo Programming Language by pjmlp on Saturday November 30, 2024 @12:19PM (#42282714)
Especially taking into account the decade of systems languages predating that feat, and everything else happening outside Bell Labs.

Had UNIX been a commercial product from the get go, and most likely C wouldn't have taken off as it did.

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