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Yes, but in was starting to grab on. In fields less obsessed with performance, like applications software, it had already taken hold: Word was written in C in 1
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Yes, but in was starting to grab on. In fields less obsessed with performance, like applications software, it had already taken hold: Word was written in C in 1983, and DOS itself was in C as well, IIRC.
- pjmlp 10y agoNo they weren't. MS-DOS was written in Assembly, just like Word for MS-DOS. Word got rewritten in C when it was ported to Windows. EDIT: You can see early versions here http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/microsoft-ms-dos-early-source-code/ http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/microsoft-ms-dos-early-... And the Lisa OS and the early versions of Mac OS were written in a mix of Assembly and Object Pascal. http://www.folklore.org/ http://www.folklore.org/ (Search for Pascal) http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_View/Entries/2010/3/20_MacPascal_and_Think_Technologies.html http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_V...
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoAh. Sorry. Got that one wrong. My mistake... So maybe not in the early 80s, but by the 90s, when PCs had progressed beyond the point of assembler being a common language, C took off, partly due to limited resources, partly because that was what all the Big Iron folks were used to at that point.