On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote: > C was written in order to write Unix.
That's what I read in the 80s but it turns out it's slightly inaccurate. Randolph Bentson wrote: > But the creation of Unix preceded the creation of C. > "Early versions of the operating system were written > in assembly languate, but during the the summer of > 1973, it was rewritten in C."[1] > > [1] "UNIX time-sharing system", p1907, The Bell > System Technical Journal, July-August 1978 So C was written in order to write a *non-assembly* version of Unix. -- Mike Orr <[email protected]>
