Re: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2, Oberon, Delphi, Algol, ...) failed compared to the C family?

[Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>]

On 2014-07-16, Adam Beneschan <adambeneschan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 5:25:17 AM UTC-7, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>> My theory: C was used to develop Unix/Linux and
>> Windows, and this made it easier for applications
>> to be written in C/C++ since the interface to the OS
>> was easier. 
>
> As I mentioned, you may be correct with respect to Unix/Linux.  As for
> Windows, I'd guess that C has already "won" by the time Windows development
> was started, so Windows being written in C/C++ wouldn't have been really a
> cause. But it could have reinforced C's dominance.
>

Don't forget that in the early days, Turbo Pascal used to be quite
popular and then later on, so was Delphi. (I would love to see Ada
have the same popularity as Delphi has had.)

As for Oberon, it was popular in some areas, but mainly in university
research environments. However, it's still taught in at least one
university course (the Oberon-2 compiler I have installed was written
for a university undergraduate course.)

Simon.

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