It was ugly and reminded us of BASIC. That's my main reason, most 80's/early 90's folks went from BASIC to C, or BASIC to pascal. If all you had was pascal, yo

It was ugly and reminded us of BASIC. That's my main reason, most 80's/early 90's folks went from BASIC to C, or BASIC to pascal. If all you had was pascal, you fell in love and never understood why any sane person would use C. C was seducing, it was faster than basic, didn't look like basic and we could fool ourselves chasing pointers, doing stupid things with it's macro system. Mental gymnasium to distract us from real work. :D