Back then there was a war between Pascal-derived (eg Modula2) languages and C-derived languages. http://www.cs.oberlin.edu/~jwalker/lisa-legacy/ http://www.cs.

Back then there was a war between Pascal-derived (eg Modula2) languages and C-derived languages. http://www.cs.oberlin.edu/~jwalker/lisa-legacy/ http://www.cs.oberlin.edu/~jwalker/lisa-legacy/ is some interesting reading on this, but in the end C won.