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=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 10514 invoked from network); 23 May 2020 04:33:41 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 23 May 2020 04:33:41 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 21FE99C943; Sat, 23 May 2020 14:33:38 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B3B9C189; Sat, 23 May 2020 14:33:13 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 9EE839C189; Sat, 23 May 2020 14:33:10 +1000 (AEST) Received: from firemail.de (firemail.de [88.99.137.45]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CDA469C187 for ; Sat, 23 May 2020 14:33:09 +1000 (AEST) Received: from firemail.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by firemail.de (b1gMailServer) with ESMTP id 6F36A0C7 for ; Sat, 23 May 2020 06:33:07 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 06:33:07 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <5ef1f056cf19b3c157fc3a8f769b4494@firemail.de> X-Mailer: b1gMail/7.4.0 X-Sender-IP: 93.209.192.220 From: "Thomas Paulsen" To: "John Gilmore" In-Reply-To: <28538.1590179965@hop.toad.com> References: <20200521182817.08C0318C093@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <202005221109.04MB92D3016090@freefriends.org> <28538.1590179965@hop.toad.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [TUHS] History of popularity of C (GCC/Cygnus) 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: , Reply-To: Thomas Paulsen Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org, jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" >Early on, GCC had the slight advantage that because it was free (as in >both beer and speech) and had an email community of maintainers I remember that we started moving to gcc, gmake, etc,, because these tools= =20 performed simply spoken better than the native SNI ones.