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by pjmlp 2853 days ago
Even in the 70's there was NEWP, PL/I, PL/S, PL/8, Concurrent Pascal, Mesa, BLISS, Modula-2, ....

C wins them all in implicit conversions and opportunities for memory corruption.

Their major sin was to be tied to commercial OSes, instead of one with source code available for a symbolic price to universities.