22 May
2020
22 May
'20
2:07 a.m.
On 2020-05-21 12:43 PM, Tony Finch wrote:
Toby Thain <toby(a)telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
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
- 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.
Tony.