From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 10784 invoked from network); 21 May 2020 16:28:37 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 21 May 2020 16:28:37 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 0B6FB9C73B; Fri, 22 May 2020 02:28:35 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D054F9C677; Fri, 22 May 2020 02:28:11 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 637F89C677; Fri, 22 May 2020 02:28:08 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 397 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Fri, 22 May 2020 02:28:07 AEST Received: from zimbra.anteil.com (zimbra.anteil.com [67.110.179.138]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B444D9C668 for ; Fri, 22 May 2020 02:28:07 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.anteil.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0669D100CB; Thu, 21 May 2020 12:18:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from zimbra.anteil.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.anteil.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id K4MQf8Z9J59b; Thu, 21 May 2020 12:18:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from zimbra.anteil.com (zimbra.anteil.com [192.168.1.22]) by zimbra.anteil.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A953410089; Thu, 21 May 2020 12:18:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 12:18:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Capp To: Tyler Adams Message-ID: <11563272.2136.1590077936597.JavaMail.root@zimbraanteil> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_2135_22750301.1590077936593" X-Originating-IP: [192.168.200.43] X-Mailer: Zimbra 6.0.7_GA_2476.RHEL4 (ZimbraWebClient - SAF3 (Linux)/6.0.7_GA_2473.UBUNTU8) Subject: Re: [TUHS] History of popularity of C X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" ------=_Part_2135_22750301.1590077936593 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Again, based on recollections, what got me immediately interested was that I regarded C as a "portable assembler". It was one of the earliest implementations of "write-once-run-anywhere". From: "Tyler Adams" To: "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2020 11:27:26 AM Subject: [TUHS] History of popularity of C Does anybody have any good resources on the history of the popularity of C? I'm looking for data to resolve a claim that C is so prolific and influential because it's so easy to write a C compiler. Tyler ------=_Part_2135_22750301.1590077936593 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Again, based on recollections, what got me immediately interested was that I regarded C as a "portable assembler".  It was one of the earliest implementations of "write-once-run-anywhere".

From: "Tyler Adams" <coppero1237@gmail.com>
To: "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2020 11:27:26 AM
Subject: [TUHS] History of popularity of C

Does anybody have any good resources on the history of the popularity of C? I'm looking for data to resolve a claim that C is so prolific and influential because it's so easy to write a C compiler.

Tyler
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