> You'd never see a language like Perl, PHP, or even Javascript come from the academic community
And you certainly will never see language like C come from academia.
Nor an operating system like (the original) Unix.
And you certainly will never see language like C come from academia.
Nor an operating system like (the original) Unix.
Unix was basically a simpler, easier to use version of MIT Multics, designed for the smaller and cheaper PDP-7. Most of the innovative ideas in Unix had first implemented in Multics.
So while neither C nor Unix where truly innovative, even for their time, they won out because they took well known concepts and actually made them work in a practical sense.