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Interesting point of view from Daniel Lemire

If you’re not already familiar with Daniel Lemire, he is a well-known performance-focused researcher and the author of widely used libraries such as simdjson.

He recently published a concise overview of the evolution of the C and C++ programming languages:

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/09/a-brief-history-of-c-c-programming-languages/

It’s a worthwhile read for anyone interested in the historical context and development of systems programming languages.

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Daniel Lemire's blog A brief history of C/C++ programming languages Initially, we had languages like Fortran (1957), Pascal (1970), and C (1972). Fortran was designed for number crunching and scientific computing. Pascal was restrictive with respect to low-level access (it was deliberately "safe", as meant for teaching structured…
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