Great overview. To support it on the design side, the video below shows the evolution of the language from CPL to BCPL to B to C. In it, you see they don't star

Great overview. To support it on the design side, the video below shows the evolution of the language from CPL to BCPL to B to C. In it, you see they don't start with what's great for analysis, safety, or efficiency so much as what can compile on terrible hardware. Thompson's modifications are a mix of arbitrary and what will make it work on a PDP. Ritchie enhances a bit for operating systems. This is start contrast from the careful design of languages like Ada or Modula-3 balancing expressiveness vs safety vs performance. No surprise a bunch of problems followed. And same ones today, 30+ years later, in average app even with better tooling available since the language itself defaults on making simple stuff require extra work to do safely. Not necessary as Wirth, Morrisett, and others showed. https://vimeo.com/132192250 https://vimeo.com/132192250