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by pjmlp 1410 days ago
On the surface that explanation might make sense, then we start diving into computer archeology and discovering what was being done outside Bell Labs with NEWP, JOVIAL, ALGOL variants, PL/I variants, BLISS, Mesa, Modula-2, PL.8, Lisp, Fortran,....

Naturally it tends to be forgotten, as most UNIX folks set the genesis of computing world in Bell Labs.