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Not only that, C is solely responsible for the October revolution and WWII. C was Pol Pot's favorite language and is reportedly used by the Taliban.
by amqpp 6y ago
Not only that, C is solely responsible for the October revolution and WWII. C was Pol Pot's favorite language and is reportedly used by the Taliban.
- fetbaffe 6y agoBig if true :-) But here is a great article https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
- SomeoneFromCA 6y agoA very odd article. Everything that said applies to any other compiled programming language, not only C. Even if Pascal or Ada had become more popular than C/C++, it would still have lead to the same architectural decisions we see in x86. In fact the biggest offender - SMT is actually the opposite of instruction-level parallelism the authors are blaming the x86 for.