BCPL was revolutionary. C was evolution in action.<p>Describing him as a schoolteacher is slightly bizarre. Technically true at one stage in his life. He was also a brilliant computer scientist for many many years and died in 1975 still in his oxbridge CS career. He had stopped being a schoolteacher in 1951.<p>Stracheys family includes Lytton Strachey who wrote a fantastic biography of Queen Victoria.<p>Wiki notes he informed the M4 macro processor which is also a Unix utility and patented fundamental ideas behind multi access time-sharing which MIT acknowledged in their ground breaking deployments.<p>This article doesn't do him justice. Read the wiki and judge for yourself.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Strachey" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Strachey</a>
Invented one of the predecessors of*<p>Also:<p>> And that’s just the legacy of C. It’s also an extremely fast and safe language<p>Only if wielded properly, which can be very tedious to do and so many people don't.