> Meanwhile after UNIX was done at AT&T, the C language authors hardly cared for the C standard committee in regards to the C compiler supported features used in Plan 9 and Inferno, being only "mostly" compatible, followed up having a authoring role in Alef, Limbo and Go.

> I doubt most C advocates ever reflect on this.

What would be the conclusion of this reflection? Assuming you have reflected on this, what was your conclusion?

That the language authors concluded C was done, there was no point collaborating with WG14, and there were better tools to do their operating systems research on.