On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:

> This is interesting. It shows that (apparently) early on, assembler was
> viewed as the primary programming language.

Well, C didn't exactly spring from Zeus's brow :-)  A good chunk of the
C library was in assembler, as were quite a number of programs.

relevant:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/hist.html