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by pjmlp 1831 days ago
That isn't what I was talking about, rather that C only appeared on season 4 of the UNIX movie, when many think it was part of the original cast from the get go.

So it gets a cargo cult status like UNIX was only possible because C was designed to make it happen and other bogus pocus that ignores almost 15 years of previous work in high level languages for systems programming.

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> rather that C only appeared on season 4 of the UNIX movie, when many think it was part of the original cast from the get go.

Ah, that makes sense, but that's a different cargo cult than Gibbon1 was complaining about.

Hence why I started my reply to Gibbon1 with "The cargo cult goes beyond that.".