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Steven wrote:

> The world is much bigger than just the C family of languages.

And even within that space, the original authors of C left plenty of
room for debate/improvement. In at least two dimensions (object
oriented programming, and memory management), various C descendants
have tried multiple different approaches to solve those problems.

Skip