alt Hacker NewsThere are systems programming languages since JOVIAL in 1958, enough of them to chose from if C had never existed, and what syntaxes would be favoured instead.
There are systems programming languages since JOVIAL in 1958, enough of them to chose from if C had never existed, and what syntaxes would be favoured instead.
It's an interesting thought experiment, but honestly for all its flaws, C did have one large advantage regarding syntax: braces. Even if C had never been invented, at some point people would have noticed that Fortran/Pascal/Whatever style BEGIN ... END blocks are annoying and just a waste of tokens.