My recollection is it was trying to keep up with Fortran's performance on numeric code as an impetus for taking advantage of UB (variations on what eventually b

My recollection is it was trying to keep up with Fortran's performance on numeric code as an impetus for taking advantage of UB (variations on what eventually became the "restrict" keyword were discussed but rejected for c89 and that idea comes directly from Fortran, which can assume arguments do not alias)