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There is some interesting content here regarding how older languages were ignored in the process.

History and Spirit of C and C++ @ NDC 2015

https://vimeo.com/132192250




Finished. Was a pretty good video. I did a write-up of it below on Schneier's blog to justify eliminating C because it's provably Bad by Design. All due to limitations of the PDP's and, new to me, the EDSAC. Also more of a rip-off of BCPL than I thought before.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/10/friday_squid_...


Very good write-up. Sadly I can only up-vote once.


Appreciate it. Watching it now as I have some spare time. Seems good so far.




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