C and Eunuchs

Eunuchs was written in c, and it had a c compiler. So they sort of grew up together. C became popular enough on eunuch systems that steve johnson wrote the portable c compilers which could produce codes for other machines. People began writing kinds of softer unifom, data base systems, heaven knows what, in c because it was available and it worked as an efficient language. And so soon enough, things that had nothing to do with eunuchs were being written in c because the merits of the language were obvious. E describes how total the c takeover was. Mc, was in the right place at the right time.

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