A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
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1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix