On Monday, 13 October 2014 at 16:28:13 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:It had a killer application called UNIX, just like JavaScript has the browser or Objective-C has the iPhone....I doubt it would ever suceeded on its own.I probably would, since it was better than http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCPL
But no better than Algol or PL/... variants. There were other alternatives.