C or Unix first...

[Deepak J]

First of all I would like to tell I'm a beginner, so the question that I am gonna ask might feel stupid.

I've always believed that it is programming languages that are made first and then applications/software is written using them.

But lately I came across an article about the Unix history and in that it was written that the development of Unix OS resulted in the creation of the C program... !!!
Oh ma goodness... That was a big blow for me.

So what is the actual truth about this chicken or egg puzzle....??

Was it the C program which was developed first and the Unix OS written in C or was it the Unix OS that resulted in the creation of the popular C programming language...?

[trent.josephsen]

Unix was first written in assembly in 1969, then rewritten in C in 1972 to make it more portable.

[3Miro]

Unix went through several stages of development. After the initial stages, they realized that they need a better language and made C. The later versions of Unix are all written in C.

[Deepak J]

thanks for the info guys....

:KS :D

[Bachstelze]

By the way, even in contemporary Unix-like OSes, some low-level functions are still written in assembly.