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From: tgg@hplb.hpl.hp.com ()
Subject: Re: Theory #51 (superior(?) programming languages)
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John  Bayko (bayko@borealis.cs.uregina.ca) wrote:
|    Theory #51 of "Why C became the most popular language": C was the
|first language where I/O was *not* part of the language. 

Algol-60 disproves your theory. (How about Algol-58?)

The rest of your post is similarly perceptive, as well.

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