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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(programming_language) There were several similar languages that could have filled the same ecological niche. C was widely available and de facto standardized (with an existing body of code as a forcing function + the existence of pcc). The others were not.