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That was already too late
by radisb 8y ago
That was already too late
- pjmlp 8y agoToo late, when Windows 3.1 was slowly getting adoption? Outside expensive UNIX workstations C was just yet another systems language. In those days 16 bit software was still mostly written in Assembly for those that cared about performance, including games and OSes. On my region of the globe using C on MS-DOS was to bring work home. At my technical school we were sharing a Xenix workstation between all class, meaning taking turns to seat at it. On OS/2, Windows, Mac OS and later BeOS, C++ was already winning ground as the main language for application development, even though the kernels were being written in C. It was the rise of free UNIX clones that helped C turn the tables into its direction.
- beagle3 8y agoI guess it's a regional thing then. In my corner of the world, Pascal was already dying commercially in 1992, Delphi gave it a final breath of life, but not enough to save it. Windows was starting to get adopted, Unix was not yet a thing in the homes (but enthusiasts DID start Linuxing by 1994-1995), Assembly was getting irrelevant except for demos, games, and the occasional tight loop, 16-bit was seriously dying -- everything new was 32-bit with dos extenders, Watcom was the best compiler ever, and DJGPP was common -- C and the shiny-new-but-not-yet-convoluted-C++ were kings. And there was essentially no viable Pascal for PCs other than Turbo Pascal -> Borland Pascal -> Delphi, so it doesn't really matter what the standard said.