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I'm going to suggest you didn't read my whole comment.

• pjmlp 9y ago
  I sure did. Burroughs B5500 was created in 1961 and executed far slower and had less memory than a PDP-11, yet it was able to have a full OS written in ESPOL, an ALGOL dialect with intrisics for CPU instructions and explicit UNSAFE statements. So if a 10 year old machine by the time C was created for computers with " extra overhead was unbearable." and " what you do when you have a 1Mhz computer" was already able to execute an Algol dialect with enough performance, what does that say of C in regards to language design?
  • ktRolster 9y ago
    You have written nothing that indicates you've read my second paragraph.
    • pjmlp 9y ago
      Only if you implying that people that wrote operating systems before C was designed, were lazy and didn't care about performance, in spite of having less powerful hardware at their disposal.