From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, October 31, 2022 at 6:22:17 PM UTC+8, Joe Monk wrote:   
      
   > > Given that SubC was written by a single guy, and is   
   > > 6000 lines of code, and given that the US government   
   > > was apparently splashing money around, why didn't   
   > > they hire someone like Nils for a year to write a   
   > > public domain C compiler - ie SubC - once and for all?   
   > >   
   > The US Government doesnt run on the C language...   
      
   But it could.   
      
   When they were giving money to IBM to develop MVS or   
   some precursor (I don't know the details - I just heard   
   that from someone), the US government could have   
   insisted that development be done in C instead of 370 assembler.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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