it's worth noting as well that the windows API has been a thing since 1985, _before_ C was standardized, such old versions of C were incredibly untyped
No. Where BCPL doesn't have types, C does have types. They're not very good types, we're not going to get any prizes in a language design class, they're basically all the machine integers wearing fancy dress, but they are types.
You know how in C you can write "int k" or "char v" ? That's types. BCPL doesn't have that. Yes that's in the original K&R book, no you didn't need to wait until 1989 to have types in C, they were obligatory from the outset.
