You are the victim of shills

Shills exist. It's a real thing.

They aren't paid. There is no possible financial gain from posting on /prog/.

But there are ideological shills that are working hard to win every-possible mind to their side.

Guess who does that?

Did you guess "the side that is over-represented on the internet and wins twelve allies every time they get a stack overflow upvote," the way that pajeets do?

You guessed wrong.

The only shills on /prog/ are the ones wringing every stone until they find one that gives a drop of blood.

/prog/ is being manipulated by C programmers and Unix hackers, because the anonymous format provides a unique opportunity for their ideas to be presented without cross-examination. Because their ideas can't withstand cross-examination.

You ever seen those posts on /prog/ about Lisp being useless in the real world? Did you know that those claims got debunked, twenty years ago? They were flat-out proved wrong, when most of you were in diapers. But you saw a statistic.

Shills are here. They won. You believe them.

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The only thing there that had anything to do with C, UNIX, or Ritchie at all was OS X because it's UNIX. Multitasking and multiprocessor OSes and systems languages were around before C. Xerox PARC didn't use any C. The Lisa and Mac didn't use any C. The IBM PC didn't use any C. The only new concepts in C were the null-terminated string (a convention from assembly) and the C-style for loop. They knew PL/I, BCPL, Algol 68, and Fortran, and worked on Multics. ANSI also fixed up C by adding features from Pascal and other languages.