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Re:An opinionated history of programming languages by tankenmate on Saturday October 03, 2020 @05:21PM (#24674755)
I think a lot of people get it mixed up with Objective-C (which is a derivative of sorts of Smalltalk).

And C++ derives much from Simula which comes from Algol. And C derives much from Algol. And link between C and C++ is kinda obvious!

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Re:An opinionated history of programming languages by thelazydogsback on Saturday October 03, 2020 @05:36PM (#24674838)
Objective-C isn't so much a language as one language embedded in another -- C + ST inside square brackets...
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Re:An opinionated history of programming languages by aidenn0 on Saturday October 03, 2020 @06:44PM (#24675230)
The blazing fast speed of Smalltalk combined with the memory safety of C
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