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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?
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> Even advanced machines like Motorola 68k, HP had horrific C compilers.

HP salesman: "Our compiler supports ANSI C (except for function
prototypes)"