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I went straight from Apple BASIC, FORTH, and 6502 assembler to Turbo Pascal, and C seemed esoteric to me at first, and even unneccessary -- compared to Turbo Pa

by sehugg 13y ago

I went straight from Apple BASIC, FORTH, and 6502 assembler to Turbo Pascal, and C seemed esoteric to me at first, and even unneccessary -- compared to Turbo Pascal that is. Then when DOOM was released compiled with Watcom C, I realized this 32-bit C compiler thing was a big deal.

pjmlp 13y ago
What baffles me is that this is the type of coding young developers associate with C and C++, whereas we had lots of options to choose from, as you well list.
AlexanderDhoore 13y ago
Some time ago, I did some Free Pascal programming and was surprised that it was much nicer than C. But C won the war because of Unix OSs, not because it's such a good language.