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		icebraining on Dec 16, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Clean – A functional programming language Because it was the language of UNIX distributions (not called that, but it's the same concept).

sitkack on Dec 23, 2017 [–]

They went hand in hand. I know lots of people that installed Linux in the 90s so they could use GCC.

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