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by paoda 1351 days ago
Perhaps I misunderstand, but I don't imagine most individuals or companies writing production C code to be on the same "level of competency" as a research company as prestigious as Bell Labs.
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pjmlp 1351 days ago
UNIX was found to be less secure than Multics, thanks to the additional safety guarantees provided by PL/I type system.

https://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf

So not even back then.

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