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> The rest makes perfect sense. Yes, if we are in 1967, just before Algol-68 was proposed.

• towaway1138 8y ago
  Arguably Algol was better, in the sense of being higher-level and with fewer sharp edges. But it looks like C probably exposes a lot more of what's actually going on with memory, pointers, the stack, the heap, etc. That's not always good, but you'll learn a lot that you can't really get with a language like Java or Python.