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Competition Among Open Source Compilers

“Since its creation, the C language has been tightly tied to
UNIX. C was designed as a portable assembly language for
reimplementing UNIX, to make it easier to port to different
platforms.

“In 1984, Richard Stallman began the GNU (GNU’s Not UNIX)
Project to provide a clone of the UNIX operating system using
entirely Free Software…”

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