Re: OT: Why is C so popular?
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:59:57PM -0700, Deryk Barker wrote:
> Nor does it help that the best-selling C book ever is, ahem,
> less-than-superbly-written.
Yeah, the New Testament needs to be reworked seriously (would it get
nicknamed "Book of Mormon?") into something a little bit more
approachable to today's audiences.
> Incidentally Paul, C was derived from B (derived from BCPL) in order
> to *re*write Unix, which was originally written in assembler.
Not quite the way Dennis has explained it, but OK.
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