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And could be used as systems programming language on 8 and 16 bit home computers, long before C got famous outside UNIX, while being safer at it.

So there is nothing like wanting to be like C, when its mainstream adoption predates C.

Actually I am quite thankful to have learnt systems programming on 8 and 16 bit systems, with BASIC and Pascal variations, macro Assemblers, exactly long before C's mainstream adoption, because I am not tainted with the idea before C there was nothing else, as it eventually became a common myth.



I still see Forth far more advanced than Basic and C+Unix it's a bit meh. Being orthogonal with pipes it's cool, but Forth did that better since day 1 and without even a wordlist.

On Pascal, good for DOS, and maybe the Classic Mac, but even under Unix there were really good underused platforms, like TCL/Tk +SQLite. More crude than VB, for sure; but, seriously, most of the time a quick tool in that language would cover the 90% of the needs of any corporation.




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