Diving into the history of higher level programming languages in the 80s, with most focus on Pascal, some on C, and a honorable mention of Forth. By continuing

Diving into the history of higher level programming languages in the 80s, with most focus on Pascal, some on C, and a honorable mention of Forth. By continuing the spirit of "how come things we have today are the way they are", the article aims to answer why was Pascal so influential, what made it so popular, when did we get C and how was it different. It's also a follow-up to an article appreciated on Hacker News that focused on how original BASIC compared to competition (and why The Famous Quote isnt' adequate to the BASIC most of us may know) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38743062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38743062