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		WalterBright on Sept 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Byte Magazine: The C Programming Language (1983) Britain and Germany saw the most sales. For reasons inexplicable to me, France bought very few compilers.

ncmncm on Sept 10, 2022 [–]

France had Minitel, so didn't need computers.

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