From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 6:02:46 AM UTC+8, Joe Monk wrote:   
   > > 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.   
   > You mean 360 assembler. The 360 OS'es (MFT/MVT) were the precursors to OS/VS.   
   >   
   > Now onto the real problem. C hadn't been invented yet.   
      
   Was there a barrier to inventing that, or something near-identical,   
   in 1955?   
      
   Regardless, this falls into the benefit of hindsight.   
      
   If I find myself transported back in time, no-one will   
   believe that I am from the future, but they will believe that   
   I invented C, even when I tell them I didn't.   
      
   They would probably even use it if I could explain the   
   benefits of it, which I probably can't.   
      
   Is the benefit that you don't need an optimizer?   
      
   Is that it?   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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