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   On Sun, 31 Dec 2023 11:35:35 +0000, Pancho  wrote:   
   > On 31/12/2023 09:59, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:   
   >> On Sun, 31 Dec 2023 08:28:28 +0000   
   >> The Natural Philosopher  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> The problem was really that C was *so* good, that people did start to   
   >>> write hugely complex stuff in it, and using people who wouldn't know a   
   >>> register or a stack pointer if it poked them in the eye or how DMA   
   >>> worked...to write them.   
   >>   
   >> 	There were two other factors in the rise of C. You could get a C   
   >> compiler for just about anything, importantly there were several for CP/M.   
   >> There weren't many decent languages that were that widely available. Also   
   >> almost every university CS course used it from very early on (Cambridge   
   >> being the notable exception because Martin Richards was there) so from   
   >> around 1980 there were a *lot* of people trained in C.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I thought university CS courses of the era avoided C and preferred more   
   > academic, pedagogical languages: Pascal, Prolog, Smalltalk, ML, Lisp.   
      
   My course in the mid 80s had Modula 2 and ML (it wasn't SML at the time)   
   as the main high level languages taught.   
      
   A bigger influence was that the main machines we used ran 4.2BSD (and   
   later Ultrix). So those of us who were keen, used C (and the odd   
   shell script) to write useful programs.   
      
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