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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request
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In article <u656j9b5t.fsf@obry.org>, Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.org> writes:
> 
> Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
> 
>> That was because of the low cost of the Unix/C combination to academia.
> 
> Wasn't this also because it was quite better than the assembler ? Was there
> many other choices ?

There were _many_ other languages.  What distinguished C was economic,
drawn not out of generosity but out of US Federal restrictions on the
activities of AT&T subsidiary Bell Labs.