It does support my argument. Unless you want to quibble about exact times and how 1959 isn't "the 70s". Before 1959, Quicksort was novel. After that, it was so

It does support my argument. Unless you want to quibble about exact times and how 1959 isn't "the 70s". Before 1959, Quicksort was novel. After that, it was something you were expected to know. Knowledge builds on knowledge. I don't have to invent heapsort. I can just study the implementation. It's now part of the common knowledge we're supposed to have. And if you think programming is just as sophisticated today as it was in the 70s and 80s, then I don't think there's anything anyone can say to you to convince you otherwise. And that's kind of the defining feature of being Turing-complete. No language is more or less adept at solving problems as any other as long as they can replicate a Turing machine.