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Re:Lisp Machine Manual (1984) by rjsw on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @08:44PM (#15188330)
There were native Pascal compilers available for the PC at the same time as the first C compilers. The Pascal ones didn't generate p-code, people just preferred writing in C.
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Re:Lisp Machine Manual (1984) by fusiongyro on Thursday September 07, 2017 @06:08PM (#15196215)
I thought that the prevalence of Pascal compilers was partly due to p-code as a compiler implementation technique, not that they were generating it.

As I mentioned above, this raises questions about why C came to dominate Pascal. They both had a comparable early foothold on PCs.

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