Just because they are remembered as being first doesn't mean they were well designed, or actually pioneers. At the same time C was being written others were wor

Just because they are remembered as being first doesn't mean they were well designed, or actually pioneers. At the same time C was being written others were working on Lisp, and ML. It has taken nearly half a century for some of their innovations to be recognized as good ideas and taken up by main stream languages, while C was a small improvement upon existing language design.