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> This completely misses the key factor: (most) computers were not big or fast enough to run high level languages back then. The first paragraph leads with tha
by emptybits 10y ago
> This completely misses the key factor: (most) computers were not big or fast enough to run high level languages back then.
The first paragraph leads with that key factor: "Even back then, there were better languages/OS's that cheap hardware just hadn't caught up to. That cheap hardware's limitations, and them alone, drove the design decisions of BCPL, B, and then C."