Pascal not considered harmful - was Re: Rich kids are into COBOL

[Ethan Dicks]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Mike Loewen
<mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us> wrote:
>> All true, but doesn't it make you wonder why Turbo Pascal
>> was such a popular development environment for the PC for so long?>
>
>    It was fast, easy to use, and inexpensive.

It was certainly a lot cheaper than a C compiler.  I paid real money
for Lattice/SAS C for the Amiga in the 1980s.

-ethan