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by housel 1547 days ago
TeX (and Metafont, and the original Tangle and Weave) were written in Pascal, which is much more rigid with respect to ordering than early C was. The CWEB used for the Stanford Graphbase came later. (Silvio Levy did the initial adaptation of Pascal WEB to C, and Knuth took it over when he switched to programming in C.)