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It's an interesting question.

I first don't see a problem with C being a basal part of the curriculum for centuries, we are already at half a century going strong.

Second, if this were to happen, it should happen with a mature language, and decided consciously by seasoned professionals.

Third. I think more than looking at other languges we should look into other types of pointers, like files, hyperlinks, assembly addresses, inodes.

To date C is the standard for pointer-pointer syntax, introducing new standards is fine, but it only makes sense with the standard syntax.

It's the canon of programming. Long live C



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