Re: Why is PASCAL long forgotten now ? ? ?

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From: Ruud Baltissen
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:09

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Hallo Brian,

> It was better as "C" and almost as good as BASIC, so I wonder why
> everybody uses C instead of Pascal or BASIC ???
> 
> I see no advantage in C.

The Amiga and the Mac were much better computers then the IBM PC in
the beginning but most of us work on PCs nowadays. Marketing and a bit
of luck I think.


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