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No, C wasn't built for those things. Rather, it just so happens to be suitable for them. C was built as a higher-level alternative to assembly, for writing any
by sdegutis 10y ago
No, C wasn't built for those things. Rather, it just so happens to be suitable for them. C was built as a higher-level alternative to assembly, for writing any kind of computer programs.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoYou can say that, but Dennis and Ken were writing Unix. The language got its feature set from what they needed for that application. And that application was systems programming.
- sdegutis 10y agoRight, and Unix had things like calculator programs, spreadsheet programs, email programs.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoYes, but those aren't the projects that dictated the featureset of C.