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by pjmlp 3397 days ago
> The only thing C had going for it was that it was the fastest non-assembly language.

Which only happened after the widespread of UNIX clones into the industry.

Back in the 80's and early 90's, the C compilers for 8 and 16 bit home computers generated pretty crappy code, versus what humans were able to write in Assembly.