Very true. Though early C compilers were pretty crap, and old machines unbearably slow. It's easy to look back from a modern context, but in the early days thos

Very true. Though early C compilers were pretty crap, and old machines unbearably slow. It's easy to look back from a modern context, but in the early days those arguments had some merit (at least at first). I find it important to keep that in mind when arguing against shiny/heavy/silly new tech in the present! Things like virtual machines, blockchain, new lang's, etc. In the era of the mainframe, 'microcomputers' were jokes, until they definitely weren't.