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• C, n.: A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else.
  It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't. -- Ray Simard...
• Pascal n. An Algol-descended language designed by Niklaus Wirth on the CDC 6600 around 1967-68 as an instructional tool for elementary programming.
  This language, designed primarily to keep students from shooting themselves in the foot and thus extremely restrictive from a general-purpose-programming point of view, was later promoted as a general-purpose tool and, in fact, became the ancestor of a large family of languages including Modula-2 and Ada (see also bondage-and-discipline l summed up by a devastating (and, in its deadpan way, screamingly funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of K&...
• BASIC /bay'-sic/ n. A programming language, originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental timesharing system in the early 1960
  which for many years was the leading cause of brain damage in proto-hackers....
• The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
• The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the readability of assembly language.
• The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.