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Re:Which language has the brightest future for replacing C: ... by pjmlp on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @05:57AM (#10545969)
C was dog slow in its early days and there were safer systems programming languages available outside the UNIX world that were equally fast.

What has gotten C compilers to generate the code quality that have nowadays is 40 years of work in compiler optimizations targeted to improve C compilers code generation.

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