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This is correct. C was dying off in the mid-1980s until UNIX-based workstations were invented, causing a resurgence in C's popularity.
by mhewett 13y ago
This is correct. C was dying off in the mid-1980s until UNIX-based workstations were invented, causing a resurgence in C's popularity.
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- mhewett 13y ago(Don't know why I can't reply to the leaf nodes in the conversation...) >What was taking its place at that time? Pascal was fairly heavily used, but was dying out. LISP was hot because it was the middle of the Great AI Boom, Modula-2 was supposed to replace Pascal and be a systems programming language, and ADA was supposed to be the next great thing. Apple had created Object Pascal. Self was the big research language. Nothing really took hold until C++ in the latter part of the 1980s.
- DonGateley 13y agoSorry, but that's just plain wrong. Everything was being implemented in C from embedded control to PC apps with C++ just around the corner.