An hardware more powerful than Burroughs machines from 1961, which were happily working with a safe systems programming language based on Algol.<p>Given that I remember the days junior Assembly developers could easily outperform C code, I don&#x27;t agree with that point.<p>I bet if it wasn&#x27;t for the rise of free UNIX clones, C would already be sharing drinks with Pascal at some  retirement home.