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Subject: Re: [TUHS] History of popularity of C
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>Dr. Lions himself) it was emphasised to us that it was not a production
>language bur a *teaching* language;

In the early 90ths I written some larger programs in Turbo Pascal after yea=
rs of intensively working with my favored C&C++ language, and was surprised=
 how well designed the Borland language was. Thus, recently I installed Fre=
e-Pascal with its comfortable IDE and since then I'm wondering why they alw=
ays inventing new languages as these 'old' C&Pascal languages are so well d=
esigned and implemented, that I can't imagine that anything else is really =
needed.