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unfashionable C

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In computer science academia, C  along with UNIX, and PDP11s, is as unfashionable as can be: the equivalent of other 1970’s relics, like polyester leisure suits and mullets. In 2018 ACM Queue published an essay by David Chisnall called: C

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