Programar em C/História da linguagem C: diferenças entre revisões

 

The portability of UNIX was the main reason for the initial popularity of both UNIX and C; rather than creating a new operating system for each new machine, system programmers could simply write the few system dependent parts required for the machine, and write a C compiler for the new system; and since most of the system utilities were written in C, it simply made sense to also write new utilities in the language.