But those aren't good analogies for "C". I think the best analogy is the long-standing belief prior to "C" that assembly would "always" be the systems programmi

But those aren't good analogies for "C". I think the best analogy is the long-standing belief prior to "C" that assembly would "always" be the systems programming language. Yes, someday a new king will be born (I doubt a coup). In a similar grain, git is a beautifully designed and conceived simple content-addressable object store. With a complex and challenging UI (I don't have any problem with it, but still). Neither of these tools are perfect; in fact they can sometimes be objectively be more imperfect than many of their competitors. But they are special. > some have written the same about various assembly languages, about COBOL, about FORTRAN, about LISP in AI It's not what people write about - it's what they use. C, UNIX(/Linux), Git are all very similar - and Pervasive.