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Many are sold on the story of C's greatness design, without bothering with historical fact checking.

C rode the wave of UNIX's success, it is like someone getting into computers in 2024 and praising Javascript's greatness for Web development.

ESPOL in 1961 already had unsafe code blocks, almost a decade before C came to be.




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