I agree. From my perspective, C syntax was just another syntax... Pascal, Lisp, BASIC, dBase, Fortran, DOS BAT, unix shell, and various assemblers. That change

I agree. From my perspective, C syntax was just another syntax... Pascal, Lisp, BASIC, dBase, Fortran, DOS BAT, unix shell, and various assemblers. That changed once C/C++ look over, but until then it wasn't something large proportions of programmers knew and had an affinity for.