And Pascal was a big language back then. Big software like photoshop were written in it, IIRC. The very first version of GCC, in the late 80s (when it was not e

And Pascal was a big language back then. Big software like photoshop were written in it, IIRC. The very first version of GCC, in the late 80s (when it was not even called that way) was written in a pascal dialect, too (and compiled both C and pascal code). OTOH, C was just standardized a few years before, and linux was just a side project from an unknown student in a small university. And there was a new version of C, with objects, classes, inheritance and all those buzzwords, so why care about the old C anyway?