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by pjmlp
3688 days ago
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> C was a pretty good language in 1978. We didn't know a lot of things in 1978 that we do now in 2016. It now makes sense to revisit those decisions in light of nearly 40 years of practice. We surely did know that Burroughs was selling an operating system written in ESPOL, later NEWP in 1961. Nowadays Unisys still sells them as MCP. We did know that the Flex machine was written in ALGOL 68RS in 1980. We did know that VME was written in S3 in 1970. We did know that Pilot was written in Mesa in 1977. We did know that Lillith was written in Modula-2 in 1997. There are lots of other examples. The main difference was that UNIX and consequently C, source code were available for free because AT&T could not sell it, while people had to pay for the other ones or they were behind research walls. |
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