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Not tyranny of masses. C compilers became more popular because they could actually run in reasonable amount of time.
by myworkinisgood 2y ago
Not tyranny of masses. C compilers became more popular because they could actually run in reasonable amount of time.
- pjmlp 2y agoMore like they were free beer compilers, on a free beer OS. On my piece of the world we were mostly using BASIC, Pascal dialects, Clipper, until Windows 3.x took over and make C relevant, alongside Petzold's book. And by then, many of us would rather use Borland compilers with Object Windows Library in C++ and Turbo Pascal, than deal with Win16 directly. Naturally on UNIX land it was another matter.
- oneshtein 2y agoPascal was fast, C was slow.
- hu3 2y agoPascal -> Oberon -> Go Languages that cared about compilation speed from the start. And it shows.