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As opposed to C's syntactic conventions, the absolutely gorgeous mush of *s, &s, __MACRO_LIKE_FUNCTIONS___() and #preprocessor directives

The default is not the best, the default has just beaten the world so many times on the head that anything else became foreign and weird and got laughed out of the room before it even had the chance to say anything.

One programming language history book/blog/paper a day keeps the nonsense notions away, C "Won" like people win the lottery or the roulette.



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