Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
Of course, there were advantages. Moving from line number BASIC to Turbo Pascal was a serious renaissance of programming for me and I don't recall any Pascal action on the Radio Shacks.
I got introduced to OS-9 because that's what the Pascal compiler ran on on a TRS-80 CoCo. That Pascal compiler came as part of a double package--it also had a C compiler.
Needless to say, Pascal didn't last long. All of the underlying weird utilities like "ls" and "rm" came with the source code. It was all in C.
Of course, to an assembly language hacker, it was obvious that C ruled and the bondage-and-discipline of Pascal sucked. The rest is history.
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