FTA: “After a new compiler was written for this new language, it was renamed to C, and the rest is history. This was a significant breakthrough, as, until then,

FTA: “After a new compiler was written for this new language, it was renamed to C, and the rest is history. This was a significant breakthrough, as, until then, kernels were written in Assembly.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_MCP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_MCP: “In 1961, the MCP was the first OS written exclusively in a high-level language.” That’s about a decade before C.