I think you and I are saying essentially the same thing: grammatical complexity seems to have little negative impact on language success. > There was little ch

I think you and I are saying essentially the same thing: grammatical complexity seems to have little negative impact on language success. > There was little choice for other features they offered (like Unix being written in C and bundling a C compiler) which.were the compelling reason to use them. Pascal was around at the same time, is grammatically infinitely more elegant... and is dead.