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> You'd never see a language like Perl, PHP, or even Javascript come from the academic community And you certainly will never see language like C come from aca
by uriel 16y ago
> You'd never see a language like Perl, PHP, or even Javascript come from the academic community
And you certainly will never see language like C come from academia.
Nor an operating system like (the original) Unix.
- radq 16y agoWeren't both C and Unix innovative at the time?
- dagw 16y agoNot really, at least not from an academic point of view. C showed up a few years after languages like LISP and Simula and around the same time as Prolog. Those languages are far more innovative than C. C on the other hand basically took well known concepts from BCPL and PDP Assembly and improved on them and made them portable. Unix was basically a simpler, easier to use version of MIT Multics, designed for the smaller and cheaper PDP-7. Most of the innovative ideas in Unix had first implemented in Multics. So while neither C nor Unix where truly innovative, even for their time, they won out because they took well known concepts and actually made them work in a practical sense.
- swolchok 16y agoC came from Bell Labs; it's not entirely clear to me that an industry research lab counts as academia.