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[–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Apple used Pascal up until the System 7 era anyway, C was just one of many choices of the time.

If we didn't have C, we'd probably have eliminated things like buffer overflows and out of bounds memory accesses decades ago.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Oh wow I didn't realize Pascal was even older than C, thought it showed up in like mid-70s or early 80s. To be fair I've ever only interacted with Delphi, not OG Pascal.

    While I don't necessarily like C, I am happy for C-style syntax over Pascal-style, which I've also worked with. Give me braces over begin and end any day of the week.

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