>>3C — by far the most influential programming language in history
There was no such thing as a general-purpose program that was both portable across a variety of hardware and also efficient enough to compete with custom code written for just that hardware.
How silly. Everyone knew it couldn’t be done.
go on to use the world’s first portable and efficient programming language to build the world’s first portable operating system
It's one thing to praise someone for their accomplishments and another thing to lie.