Provided examples from 1978 and 1983 languages do that just as well, unless you mean by 1978, C design was too primitive, or even when compared with languages l

Provided examples from 1978 and 1983 languages do that just as well, unless you mean by 1978, C design was too primitive, or even when compared with languages like PL/I and NEWP from 1966 and 1961 respectively, which then I fully agree with.