22 May
2020
22 May
'20
2:52 p.m.
Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu> writes:
I suspect the real reason for C's sucess was the
nature of the language.
When I first saw it (ca. 1976), it struck me as a quantum improvement over
its contemporaries.
Paul Graham expressed it like this:
"It seems to me that there have been two really clean, consistent
models of programming so far: the C model and the Lisp model. These
two seem points of high ground, with swampy lowlands between them."
-tih
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