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Nothing was non-trivially usable on an IBM PC without a pile of assembly code. Integrating C with assembly was easy. Pascal originally didn't support that at a

Nothing was non-trivially usable on an IBM PC without a pile of assembly code. Integrating C with assembly was easy. Pascal originally didn't support that at all. And academics were utterly horrified by things like Turbo Pascal.

pjmlp 4y ago
The usual argument, C extensions for inline Assembly and dialects outside UNIX, no problem, it was great. The fact that Pascal extensions existed, and Modula-2 as evolution from Pascal was a standard since 1978, doesn't count.