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C got ubiquitous well before Linux, at least. I'd date it back to the '80s on microcomputers ( mostly meaning DOS) . Lots of Pascal, but Pascal really was an e
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
C got ubiquitous well before Linux, at least. I'd date it back to the '80s on microcomputers ( mostly meaning DOS) .
Lots of Pascal, but Pascal really was an engineering constraint at the time if you were doing actual system
programming. And back then, that was a serious consideration.
- pjmlp 10y agoNot in Portugal, we were using mostly using Turbo Pascal. In the 80's using C on MS-DOS, was only seen by those that had UNIX at work or universities and wanted to work home. It wasn't even C, rather SmallC or any other K&R dialect. In any case, everyone that cared about performance was using TASM and MASM, writing everything in Assembly.