[tdeck]

Folks reading this thread would likely appreciate this video on the history of C:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=chpT0TzietQ

It goes into a lot of these evolutionary stages.

And the history of W:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2j7mZ9-2Y&vl=en

[kragen]

Ritchie wrote a great history of C for HOPL II: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

Oh, not that C?