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> That's debatable given that both approaches have been around for about the same length of time with different outcomes in terms of adoption. If unix had been
by codygman 13y ago
> That's debatable given that both approaches have been around for about the same length of time with different outcomes in terms of adoption.
If unix had been created in LISP or ML, I believe we might be in the opposite position. Though that hinges on a LISP unix being as successful as the C one.
- mike_hearn 13y agoBut before UNIX there was Symbolics, and Symbolics failed in the market whereas UNIX succeeded.
- codygman 13y agoWas that because C was better than Lisp though, because of timing, or because the people working on UNIX's goals were more closely aligned with the industry as a whole? There are of course many other things it could have been, but these are the first that come to my mind.