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Counterpoint regarding C and C++ is the famous “Worse is Better” essay by famed Lisp hacker Richard Gabriel: https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.htm
by linguae 4y ago
Counterpoint regarding C and C++ is the famous “Worse is Better” essay by famed Lisp hacker Richard Gabriel:
https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
C was the implementation language of AT&T Unix. The operating system spread across universities in the 1970s due to AT&T’s inexpensive licensing to them, including source code. Unix, though its variants and clones, became the dominant operating system with most competitors either dying out or adopting Unix.
Both C and C++ also had the benefits of being the “blessed” languages of Windows (for example, Win32 is a C API, and MFC is a C++ API). Even in the days of the classic Mac, while Pascal was originally the language of choice, eventually in the 1990s C would be “blessed” by Apple.