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C is a great language to program a PDP-11 in the 1980s. And that's it. There are SO MANY alternatives for so many different use cases nowadays, it's just hard t
by doodlesdev 4y ago
C is a great language to program a PDP-11 in the 1980s. And that's it. There are SO MANY alternatives for so many different use cases nowadays, it's just hard to justify using C anywhere whatsoever.
- erik_seaberg 4y agoIt was practical for self-hosted PDP-11 development, which was tough. They could have cross-compiled a few other languages on a bigger machine, if only they had one.