David Blume"So this young upstart whippersnapper comes along and decides to try to specify a language that will let people write programs that are: (a) high-level, with structures and functions; (b) portable to just about any kind of hardware; and (c) efficient on that hardware so that they’re competitive with handcrafted nonportable custom assembler code on that hardware. A high-level, portable, efficient systems programming language.
How silly. Everyone knew it couldn’t be done.
C is a poster child for why it’s essential to keep those people who know a thing can’t be done from bothering the people who are doing it."
-- Herb Sutter explains what Bjarne Stroustrup meant when he said of Dennis Ritchie, “They said it couldn’t be done, and he did it.”
Dennis Ritchie
How silly. Everyone knew it couldn’t be done.
C is a poster child for why it’s essential to keep those people who know a thing can’t be done from bothering the people who are doing it."
-- Herb Sutter explains what Bjarne Stroustrup meant when he said of Dennis Ritchie, “They said it couldn’t be done, and he did it.”
Dennis Ritchie
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