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by a1369209993 1824 days ago
No, the problem on unix v4 (at least I think that's the version I'm talking about) was that the C compiler did not support passing structs - whether as arguments, return values, or any other expression. So, they didn't do that, because it wouldn't work, and it was less hassle to work around it than fix the compiler. The cargo cult is when people keep avoiding struct passing, even though that compiler deficiency has been fixed for decades now.
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pjmlp 1824 days ago
That isn't what I was talking about, rather that C only appeared on season 4 of the UNIX movie, when many think it was part of the original cast from the get go.

So it gets a cargo cult status like UNIX was only possible because C was designed to make it happen and other bogus pocus that ignores almost 15 years of previous work in high level languages for systems programming.

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a1369209993 1824 days ago
> rather that C only appeared on season 4 of the UNIX movie, when many think it was part of the original cast from the get go.

Ah, that makes sense, but that's a different cargo cult than Gibbon1 was complaining about.

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pjmlp 1824 days ago
Hence why I started my reply to Gibbon1 with "The cargo cult goes beyond that.".
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