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Re:Apple Donates MacPaint Source Code To Computer History Mu... by trop on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @02:46AM (#1531362)
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language):

"Pascal was the primary high-level language used for development in the Apple Lisa, and in the early years of the Mac; parts of the original Macintosh operating system were hand-translated into Motorola 68000 assembly language from the Pascal sources. ...the C interface for the Macintosh operating system API had to deal in Pascal data types."

My memory was that C was considered a mainframe and IBM PC language, while the relative elegance and sophistication of Pascal was good style for Macs (esp. when leavened by a bit of assembly code).

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Re:Apple Donates MacPaint Source Code To Computer History Mu... by varjag on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @03:39AM (#1531436)
It's interesting that there was such a notion, as C was never popular on mainframes.
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Re:Apple Donates MacPaint Source Code To Computer History Mu... by jacquesm on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @05:01AM (#1531541)
I think he meant mini computers.
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