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Re: pure C90 environment

From Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: pure C90 environment
Date 2020-05-20 10:17 +1200
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On 20/05/2020 09:54, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> writes:
> <cut>
>> I was there in 1990 and there was no
>> competitor to C for developing
>> low-level code.
> 
> To the extent that that is true it is because K&R C had already "won" by
> then.  I was there in 1990 as well, but I was also there in 1980 and I
> worked on low-level code written in BCPL and, later, in Pascal (of all
> things).  These alternatives, and others, did not go away.

Same here, our company had complex system implemented in BCPL and we 
wrote what would be called embedded systems on PDP11s written in Pascal.

Back in my schools days, we used a PDP11 with an OS written in a dialect 
of BASIC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC-PLUS).  So I learned my 
low level coding in BASIC...

-- 
Ian.

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pure C90 environment Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2020-05-01 22:19 -0700
  Re: pure C90 environment fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2020-05-02 01:24 -0700
    Re: pure C90 environment Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2020-05-02 01:56 -0700
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    Re: pure C90 environment Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2020-05-02 02:14 -0700
      Re: pure C90 environment antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2020-05-03 22:33 +0000
        Re: pure C90 environment Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2020-05-03 16:18 -0700
          Re: pure C90 environment antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2020-05-04 00:35 +0000
            Re: pure C90 environment Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2020-05-03 17:54 -0700
              Re: pure C90 environment Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-05-03 18:38 -0700
                Re: pure C90 environment Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2020-05-03 18:51 -0700
              Re: pure C90 environment David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-05-04 09:36 +0200
                Re: pure C90 environment James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2020-05-04 08:48 +0100
                Re: pure C90 environment Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2020-05-04 01:12 -0700
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                Re: pure C90 environment Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2020-05-04 06:21 -0700
                Re: pure C90 environment David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-05-04 15:40 +0200
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