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> It was basically a lisp syntax for C It was more like a proto-Rust. The Lisp-like syntax was a placeholder while the developers (plural) tried to solve langu
by Hemospectrum 4y ago
> It was basically a lisp syntax for C
It was more like a proto-Rust. The Lisp-like syntax was a placeholder while the developers (plural) tried to solve language problems on a semantic level. Memory safety was their white whale. They never came up with a solution for that. The original author left because he had given up.