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by dapperdrake 55 days ago
Isn't this how Kernighan and late Ritchie (K&R) ended up with unix and C?

Honestly, brilliant guys.

When C got its own standards committee they even rejected Ritchie's proposal to add fat pointers to C before it was too late to add them. Instead, we got the C abstract machine.