alt Hacker NewsI am very sceptical about that. Much safer and cleaner languages like ML and Lisp were contemporary to C, and were equally developed on memory-scarce hardware.
I am very sceptical about that. Much safer and cleaner languages like ML and Lisp were contemporary to C, and were equally developed on memory-scarce hardware.
They were also comparatively slow, no? And their runtimes used up much more of that scarce memory than a C program did.