From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: stewart@serissa.com (Lawrence Stewart) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 16:47:15 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs In-Reply-To: References: <0f57f9d8248db61cba34372814d2f45e.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> Message-ID: <0B1FBD65-890A-4A06-B05F-7018C640BE08@serissa.com> Regarding Pascal for the IBM PC. In its day, Borland Turbo Pascal was particularly fast. But C existed as well. In 1982 I was building an ethernet telephone at PARC and used the 8088, mostly because they were cheap (due to the PC) and because we had an internal C compiler for it. I felt C was the necessary language, because that’s what we used on V7 at Stanford. -L