[TUHS] History of popularity of C

[Toby Thain]

On 2020-05-21 12:43 PM, Tony Finch wrote:
> Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> - inexpensive compiler availability was not very good until ~1990 or
>> later, but C had been taking off like wildfire for 10 years before that
> 
> I get the impression that an important part of its popularity was how C
> (and C++) became the language of choice on the PC, and displaced Pascal in
> the process.

Yes, that's basically true, but I didn't try to cover the contemporary
"appeal" of C, stylistic or otherwise - but only the compiler point
(which I think is mostly false).

--Toby


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> Tony.
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