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> Every single design decision about C was made with the computer in mind. A computer. The PDP-11. C was a terrible fit for a lot of the popular contemporary a
by sedachv 7y ago
> Every single design decision about C was made with the computer in mind.
A computer. The PDP-11. C was a terrible fit for a lot of the popular contemporary architectures when it was designed (PDP-10, Burroughs large systems, UNIVAC 1100, CDC mainframes, HP 3000), and continued to be a very poor fit for many computers in the 1980s (segmented 8086 and 286, 6502, AS/400, Lisp Machines except for Xerox, Connection Machine, Tandem, Novix/RTX, Transputer, etc.).