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by ArkyBeagle
4175 days ago
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I'd say that in terms of seats sold, Borland and Microsoft had more to do with it. Maybe first one then the other. But 'C' was the semi-official language of the old DOS PC world from 1985 until Linux happened. It's somewhat tragic, because Modula-2 and Ada toolchains existed, but were harder to use than 'C' for performance and memory constraint reasons ( not to mention the toolchain costs ) Borland started out with Pascal, but went to 'C'. |
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As someone that used all their products before they became Imprise or how it was called, I never saw this happening.
Even nowadays C++ Builder actually uses the Delphi framework.
EDIT: Just wanted to add that in my part of the planet, it was all about Assembly for systems programming, games and real applications. Turbo Pascal for general purpose applications without much performace issues and CLIPPER for the typical CRUD applications.