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In CP/M, MS-DOS and a few other home systems, Pascal used to have more compiler variants available than C.
Pascal dialects like Turbo Pascal had all the features of C, plus modules, OOP, type safe enumerations and many other features.
If it wasn't for the rise of FOSS in the late 90's, widespreading the UNIX culture and thus C, Pascal derived languages might have been kept around.
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In CP/M, MS-DOS and a few other home systems, Pascal used to have more compiler variants available than C.
Pascal dialects like Turbo Pascal had all the features of C, plus modules, OOP, type safe enumerations and many other features.
If it wasn't for the rise of FOSS in the late 90's, widespreading the UNIX culture and thus C, Pascal derived languages might have been kept around.