Worse is better?

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

Am 13.10.2014 um 23:56 schrieb "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>":
> On Monday, 13 October 2014 at 19:00:37 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> But no better than Algol or PL/... variants.
>>
>> There were other alternatives.
>
> Algol compilers required a lot more RAM than BCPL (~120k vs ~20k)
>
> :)
>

If you wish, I can enumerate other alternatives with compatible memory 
requirements. :)

It was a matter of luck being tied to UNIX, just like JavaScript is tied 
to the browser, having a few of the key developers spread into American 
universities outside AT&T, and creating workstation startups that 
succeed in the market.

Outside of the workstation market based on UNIX systems and a few 
universities, barely anyone was using C in Europe.

If those startups that paved the way to likes of Sun, SGI among others, 
had failed to capture the market, C would just be another footnote in 
the history of programming languages.

--
Paulo