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by pjmlp 3587 days ago
Most of which from people that never used anything else and think C was some kind of wonderful invention by two guys at AT&T that just want to have an easy way to implement a compiler, by ignoring what everyone else has done before.

Had UNIX been a commercial OS instead of having the source code available for free, C would just be another footnote on the history of system programming languages.