On 2005-06-30, Ivan Van Laningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As other have noted, C was never really used for everything. Unix >> tools were designed to connect together from the very beginning, which >> is what makes shell scripting so powerful. This was true before there >> was a C. Likewise, some things you need more control over the machine >> than you get in C - those are still done in assembler. These days, C >> compilers let you embed assembler statements in your C, so some of >> these things are done in such variants. > > It really was used "for everything";
I think there are two intepretations of C being "used for everthing". My reading of that phrase is that nothing else was used: there were no shell scripts, no awk scripts, no FORTRAN programs, no JCL, no COBOL, no Lisp, no sed. That just was never the case. There never was a C-language monoculture in any OS. Another possible interpretation is that at some point in the past, there was some misguided soul who has tried to use C for every type of task imaginable. That's probably true, but the same could be said of any language. -- Grant Edwards -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
