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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
But cast your mind back to the late 60s and early 70s where the language was developed on a PDP-11 with 24K 16-bit words (with a lineage linking it to a PDP-7 with 8K 18-bit), generally programmed in assembly. It wasn't a bad choice at the time. It's not like they could just download any number of already implemented programming languages on a whim or run everything in their browser.