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   On 2023-12-30 21:19, Richard Kettlewell wrote:   
   > Björn Lundin writes:   
   >> The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> To people like me who migrated from assembler to C, it was heaven.   
   >>   
   >> And the intention of the language. To be portable assembler.   
   >   
   > I’m not sure that’s born out by the history (e.g. [1]).   
      
   Hmm, me surprised and some googling later, I see that.   
   I've heard a lot of times about c was created because   
   they (K&R) wanted to write a portable OS to one of   
   the early PDPs, instead of rewriting it in assembler for that particular   
   CPU. But it seems to be an urban legend.   
   I stand corrected   
      
      
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   /Björn   
      
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