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2011-10-14 , 17:43
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#11
Originally Posted by ME2g View Post
Nobody seems to notice, that without Dennis Ritchie and
his coinventors, C would not exist, C++ perhaps neither and
we don't know if the rest of programming languages beside Assembler,Pascal, Modula would exist nowadays..
Well, assembler predates any "high level" language by a wide margin, and pascal first appeared in 1970, while C only appeared in 1973.
Maybe C++ wouldn't exist without C, but I'm not sure the absence of both would be a bad thing....

Edit: duh, I missed the "beside" in the original message.
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