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 The C programming language is a foundational technology for modern computing with millions of lines of code implementing everything from hobby projects to commercial operating-systems.
 This installation base and the programmers producing it represent a massive software-engineering investment spanning decades and likely to continue for decades more.
-Nevertheless, C, first standardized almost forty years ago, lacks many features that make programming in more modern languages safer and more productive.
+Nevertheless, C, first standardized almost thirty years ago, lacks many features that make programming in more modern languages safer and more productive.
 
 The goal of the \CFA project (pronounced ``C-for-all'') is to create an extension of C that provides modern safety and productivity features while still ensuring strong backwards compatibility with C and its programmers.