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Just because we already have programming languages does not mean we cannot evolve new languages. Those earlier languages wouldn't even exist had they not been evolved from earlier languages.

Prior to the development of the C Programming language there was the B programming language, which was itself a variant of Combined Programming Language (CPL) known as Basic CPL (or BCPL). The B programming language could not address memory at the byte level, thus modifying the B language to meet this demand resulted in the C language.

While many of the early languages have fallen into disuse, the general-purpose nature of C made it extremely popular across a wide range of programming fields. Virtually every program you use today relies on C code at some point. So although we have new languages to write programs, including C++ which effectively replaces C completely, there is still a great deal of C code out there, and it all needs to be maintained. Some of it will eventually be replaced with new code, but there's no point in replacing code unless you can replace it with something that works more efficiently.

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