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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada,
 Modula-2,2,Oberon,
 Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family?
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:52:50 -0700
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AT&T distributed Unix, with a C compiler, free to universities. So a lot of 
universities used C and a lot of people were exposed to C that way.

Pascal was designed as a teaching language and wasn't usable for real-life problems.

In the US, at least, "real men" used FORTRAN in the 1960s and 1970s. C is even 
more "manly".

C was designed by a coder for coding. It's for writing code quickly, without 
concern for such inessentials as readability, modification, or correctness. Most 
developers are coders.

It takes a lot of effort to get something to sort of do most of what you want in 
C. This gives a tremendous feeling of accomplishment. Spending a lot of time 
thinking, then correcting some typos caught by the compiler, and then having it 
work correctly just doesn't cut it.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"What lazy lout left these wires all over the lawn?"
Poppy
98