The internet is filled with stories and praises of software giants such as Steve Jobs.
For many of us unfamiliar with the name, heres why we should be singing his praises.
B being an interpreted language , was executed by an intermediate piece of software running atop a CPU.
It was compiled and translated into machine code and then executed by the CPU.
They built C to write a program, says Pike, who would join Bell Labs 10 years later.
And the program they wanted to write was the UNIX kernel.
Thats what we call data structures, Pike says.
They needed a way to group all that data together, and they didnt have that with Fortran.
That opened the floodgates for UNIX running everywhere, Pike says.
It was all made possible by C.
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source: www.techworm.net
