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Re:Escaping the Safari sandbox with a kernel GPU bug by pjmlp on Thursday November 27, 2014 @08:47AM (#8667234)
Because UNIX was embraced by the enterprise and brought C along.

Algol 68, Modula-2, Mesa, Cedar were all options back when UNIX was being brought to life.

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Re:Escaping the Safari sandbox with a kernel GPU bug by alkonaut on Thursday November 27, 2014 @11:04AM (#8667734)
That's also a pet peeve of mine: the amalgamation of OS and compiler/language still feels like an odd design (of course, for me who arrived with time machine in the 2000's, so does teletypes and tape archives).
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