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   Bug Hunter Cat (bughuntercat@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 08:31:39 JST Bug Hunter Cat

   Dennis Rtichie is the King 👑
   #dennisritchie #cprogramming #unix #programming

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     Bug Hunter Cat (bughuntercat@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 01:38:44 JST Bug Hunter Cat

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     • Emil Jacobs - Collectifission
     • David Chisnall

     @david_chisnall @collectifission Possibly the best comment, the most instructive. I am 61 and I know all this fascinating history of programming but not in such depth. You know much more than I do, without a doubt. It's interesting how a meme can generate so much interaction and learning. Thank you.

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     David Chisnall (david_chisnall@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 01:38:45 JST David Chisnall

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     • Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

     @collectifission @bughuntercat Os we didn’t have C, Pascal derivatives would have taken the same place and, I suspect, the world would be a marginally better place. Later Pascal dialects fixed a lot of things that Kernighan complained about in Why Pascal is not my Favourite Language and a lot of additional things that were not fixed in C.

     The original Mac operating system was written in Pascal, not C, and Win16 was designed to support both C and Pascal as first-class languages. The Burroughs Large Systems machines used (garbage collected!) Algol to write the OS.

     UNIX was influential, but it’s not always been for positive reasons. A lot of the things that made modern systems so insecure would have been impossible on MULTICS, but UNIX threw the, away and they were not reintroduced even when UNIX derivatives were running on machines orders of magnitude more powerful than those for which MULTICS was designed.

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     Emil Jacobs - Collectifission (collectifission@greennuclear.online)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 01:38:46 JST Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

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     @bughuntercat tbf, if Ritchie didn't invent C, someone else probably would've.

     But I agree his impact has been much larger.