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Okay, I'll amend my position from "Everything is based on C", to "Everything is based on C except for a handful of LISP machines that nobody cares about but a h
by beat 8y ago
Okay, I'll amend my position from "Everything is based on C", to "Everything is based on C except for a handful of LISP machines that nobody cares about but a handful of fundamentalists".
At which point someone who collects antique UNIVACs will tell me I'm wrong, too.
- varjag 8y agoC is not the first programming language out there, you know. And for its first decade it wasn't even the most popular. There are still architectures in production and use that you'd struggle to find a conformant C compiler for. It's really bizarre how you expect the world to revolve around it.
- pjmlp 8y agoModern C compilers are written in C++ actually. IBM z, IBM i and Unisys ClearPath are still quite modern and aren't written in C, rather in memory safe system programming languages. Then Windows is largely C++ and .NET, even what used to be plain old C nowadays has been migrated to play nicely when compiled with C++ compilers. Finally there are a couple of embedded and real time OSes that are based on C++, like ARM's mbed or even Arduino libraries.