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That Unix is the roadster that gave us c. But Linux was the one that drove c into our core operating system infrastructure. Windows did the same favor for c++.
by oneweekwonder 9y ago
That Unix is the roadster that gave us c. But Linux was the one that drove c into our core operating system infrastructure. Windows did the same favor for c++.
One of the reasons why other languages failed? While c/c++ flourished in the oss environment, even with its tooling being sub-par at the time. imo.
- pjmlp 9y agoI almost agree, just not quite regarding how it went. C++ was already being adopted by all desktop systems, Mac, OS/2, Windows, even if at lower level it was a mix of Pascal (Mac) and C. On proprietary UNIX systems, C++ major stronghold was CORBA based applications, while some companies were pushing C++ bindings for Motif. Then GNU and Linux happened, with FSF suggesting that the best approach to write portable open source should be C, and then we arrived in the present situation.