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What are you even talking about? Plenty of languages were around then and C dominated all of them because it let people write great software.

• ksec 5y ago
  I am sure a few old HNer will tell you, C dominated because of UNIX, and the rest is history.
  • gilbetron 5y ago
    I am old, and that is not the case (although Unix was one of the reasons).