UNIX was born as what you could consider a relatively esoteric response to the more popular MULTICS project. Same with B/C and BCPL. But I think that considerin

UNIX was born as what you could consider a relatively esoteric response to the more popular MULTICS project. Same with B/C and BCPL. But I think that considering C and UNIX esoteric is a bit of a stretch, taking into account that they were developed at Bell Labs and almost everything related with computers could be considered esoteric back then.