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Think back to when COBOL actually changed. This is when the PC was becoming more common. So people would tend to use whatever came with the PC. Basic was the mo
by startupdiscuss 8y ago
Think back to when COBOL actually changed. This is when the PC was becoming more common. So people would tend to use whatever came with the PC. Basic was the most common language. If Apple and Commodore had opened up into a COBOL interpreter, it would have lasted that generation.
I am not sure why C took over from Basic. Perhaps it had something to do with speed or with control. I don't know if the same reasons would apply to Cobol.
- zerohp 8y agoC didn't take over from Basic. Basic was used by the end user because it was free with the machine. It wasn't used by that many software engineers. Most of the software made for the early personal computer (8-bit era) was written in assembly. Assembly was still popular on the 16 bit machines, but most software was written in Pascal or C.