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0 pointsagumonkey12y ago0 comments

I wonder if this was how people felt about C in early days. ASM was the low level frailty, and C the oh-so-clean one-make-away world to create, extend, modify your system.

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Avshalom12y ago

Lispmachines existed in the early days of C, so no probably not.

agumonkeyOP12y ago

Weren't they pretty much a niche compared to unix systems ?

Avshalom12y ago

They were a niche at the time but remember, this was the early 70s, so was Unix.

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0 pointsagumonkey12y ago0 comments

I wonder if this was how people felt about C in early days. ASM was the low level frailty, and C the oh-so-clean one-make-away world to create, extend, modify your system.

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Avshalom12y ago

Lispmachines existed in the early days of C, so no probably not.

agumonkeyOP12y ago

Weren't they pretty much a niche compared to unix systems ?

Avshalom12y ago

They were a niche at the time but remember, this was the early 70s, so was Unix.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse