> Arguments like this sound like old arguments that were re-told to me by my father where people argued that C couldn't replace the use case for Algol at the Un

> Arguments like this sound like old arguments that were re-told to me by my father where people argued that C couldn't replace the use case for Algol at the University of Michigan MTS system. The problem with those comments is that they are intellectually lazy, and use age as a proxy for "better". Language X can be designed with specific features in mind that offer interesting features that Language Y fails to offer, but that is not ensured by the release date, nor might that be an acceptable tradeoff when considering other factors.