The economic advantages of portability are very great. In many segments of the computer industry, the dominant cost is development and maintenance of software. Dennis Ritchie and Stephen Johnson 1978 … many insist that C is the programming language and that it will last forever. Byte Magazine 1983 The August 1983 issue of Byte Magazine devoted its cover, and a large part of its editorial content,
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