> > > > Without Mr. Ritchie's contribution there would be no Mame.
> > >
> > > Why not? It would just be written in another language.
> >
> > Mame in assembler....*shudder*
>
> BCPL, APL and Pascal all predate C. It wasn't the first high-level structured
> language.
I'm pretty sure the GNU project wouldn't have taken off if Pascal was the major language choice when RMS got butthurt about a printer in 1982. C and UNIX are basically prerequisites for the existence of F/OSS, including hobbyist emulators.
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