Pascal and C were the subject of protracted language wars, with all the usual accouterments involved with those. Pascal was very common back then; UCSD Pascal

Pascal and C were the subject of protracted language wars, with all the usual accouterments involved with those. Pascal was very common back then; UCSD Pascal and pCode and Terak boxes were all over the place back in college. Apple was (then) built on Pascal, and this was markedly different from C on SunOS, ULTRIX VAX and RISC/MIPS, AT&T S3 and SVID,and the early (buggy) VAX C on the odd VMS boxes. (Java still reminds me of that Pascal and pCode implementation.)