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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:

> But we've got the opposite situation with languages. A long list.
> Which means that its high time something like B64 came along and
> provided a scaleable, interface-friendly, standardised method
> of programming computers.

https://xkcd.com/927/

But I'll tell you what - get 3 more people to contribute code to B64
and maybe, just maybe, people might consider starting to perhaps take it
slightly seriously as the "next C", when compared to Go, Swift, Rust etc