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Asked: 2026-05-13T16:17:44+00:00

I recall a quote that goes something like this: Unix is the universal virtual

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I recall a quote that goes something like this:

Unix is the universal virtual machine and C is its scripting language.

I am looking for the origin of this quote and the exact language. I vaguely remember Eric Raymond as the proximate source, but I can’t find it in his writing.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The nearest quote I could find was ‘it’s perhaps best to think of C as a high-level assembler for the Unix virtual machine‘, found here

    Edit: Perhaps you are referring to Eric S Raymond’s book ‘The Art Of Unix Programming‘

    Hope this helps,
    Best regards,
    Tom.

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