alt Hacker NewsIt'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.
Nah, the advantage was called UNIX, with source code being available for a symbolic price with a C compiler, at least until AT&T got allowed to charge for it, a decade later.
You mean the same people that now write piles of Markdown tokens in plain English?