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I would argue that your post is a nice post-rationalization, and is not very accurate historically. The mans in the first versions of UNIX used to show how to d
by Joker_vD 5y ago
I would argue that your post is a nice post-rationalization, and is not very accurate historically. The mans in the first versions of UNIX used to show how to do syscalls both in Fortran and C, and only later they've dropped the Fortran because it was too much hassle; and since it was all done way before Ulrich Drepper invented shared libraries, we ended with system calls buried in the C runtime. Also, people wrote complete working OSes in Pascal exactly around the time C was invented, so the part about "no competing systems programming languages" is not true either.
- guerrilla 5y ago> and is not very accurate historically. The mans in the first versions of UNIX used to show how to do syscalls both in Fortran and C I don't know what early versions and manuals you mean because that wasn't in v6 or v7. Was there Fortran on UNIX before F77 was introduced in v7?
- Joker_vD 5y agoSorry, I was wrong; for some reason I thought it was Fortran but of course it was PDP-11 assembly. It stayed there up until v7, and was removed in v8. That subtracts from my argument.