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Re:Apple Donates MacPaint Source Code To Computer History Mu... by Hoff on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @07:09AM (#1531697)
Pascal and C were the subject of protracted language wars, with all the usual accouterments involved with those.

Pascal was very common back then; UCSD Pascal and pCode and Terak boxes were all over the place back in college.

Apple was (then) built on Pascal, and this was markedly different from C on SunOS, ULTRIX VAX and RISC/MIPS, AT&T S3 and SVID,and the early (buggy) VAX C on the odd VMS boxes.

(Java still reminds me of that Pascal and pCode implementation.)

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