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by pmontra 2405 days ago
Well, Pascal has been dominant for a short time before C and its family really took off. But that was such a long time ago that I kind of forgot about it. C (without ++) was nice because you could write code without too much boilerplate compare to Pascal and it was noticeably faster (computers were slow.) However any mistake with pointers could crash the computer if it was a DOS PC and not a UNIX workstation.