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Re:Which language has the brightest future for replacing C: ... by ArkyBeagle on Thursday November 12, 2015 @01:00PM (#10554834)
Turbo Pascal was common before Turbo 'C' in the US as well. I personally was rather relieved to change from Pascal to 'C'. It's possible that that transition helped me to understand how to use 'C' safely.

With Pascal, I recall having to use more assembler.

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Re:Which language has the brightest future for replacing C: ... by pjmlp on Thursday November 12, 2015 @02:09PM (#10555388)
I would say that from my vague memories, Turbo C 2.0 wasn't much different from Turbo Pascal 5.x and 6.0.

I had to use Assembly in both cases.

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Re:Which language has the brightest future for replacing C: ... by ArkyBeagle on Friday November 13, 2015 @10:02PM (#10564232)
I was writing protocol drivers, and 'C' is better for that.
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