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cat199 on Jan 26, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Websocketd

... and yet Unix was critiqued for being written in a high level language instead of assembler

pjmlp on Jan 26, 2019 [–]

UNIX was originally written in Assembly, B and C came later.

And why should it be criticized? Outside AT&T, people were writing OSes in high level languages since 1961.

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