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There were native Pascal compilers available for the PC at the same time as the first C compilers. The Pascal ones didn't generate p-code, people just preferred
by rjsw 9y ago
There were native Pascal compilers available for the PC at the same time as the first C compilers. The Pascal ones didn't generate p-code, people just preferred writing in C.
- fusiongyro 9y agoI thought that the prevalence of Pascal compilers was partly due to p-code as a compiler implementation technique, not that they were generating it. As I mentioned above, this raises questions about why C came to dominate Pascal. They both had a comparable early foothold on PCs.