from Hacker News

The Monumental Impact of C

by seomint on 10/1/19, 7:48 PM with 5 comments

  • by pjmlp on 10/1/19, 8:33 PM

    > Bell Labs pulled out of the Multics program in 1969. Multics wasn't going to happen.

    Not only did Multics happened, even without the help of Bell Labs, a later DoD security assessment proved that thanks to the fact of Multics being written in PL/I it wasn't susceptible to the security exploits that plague UNIX clones to this day.

    https://multicians.org/b2.html