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by StephenFalken
4030 days ago
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C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. While accidents of history surely
helped, it evidently satisfied a need for a system implementation language
efficient enough to displace assembly language, yet sufficiently abstract and
fluent to describe algorithms and interactions in a wide variety of environments.
-- Dennis M. Ritchie (in "The Development of the C Language" [1])
[1] http://heim.ifi.uio.no/inf2270/programmer/historien-om-C.pdf |
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