I apologize in advance but... "necessity"... Surely not THE "necessity", mother of invention? I guess that would absolutely give you a veto on other people "s

I apologize in advance but... "necessity"... Surely not THE "necessity", mother of invention? I guess that would absolutely give you a veto on other people "scratching their own itches". Snark aside, the issue is surely whether, if designing C now, the last 40 years of programming language theory would not have some impact.