From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ches@cheswick.com (William Cheswick) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 10:33:41 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs In-Reply-To: References: <0f57f9d8248db61cba34372814d2f45e.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> Message-ID: I understand there were a number of problems that went the other way. Motorola dropped the ball, software was buggy, and IBM needed an immediate answer. On the other hand, there was no excuse for a Pascal compiler to be either large, buggy, or slow, even before Turbo Pascal. > On 30Jun 2016, at 10:05 AM, Marc Rochkind wrote: > > Not for those of us trying to write serious software. The IBM PC came out in August, 1981, and I left Bell Labs to write software for it full time about 5 months later. At the time, it seemed to me to represent the future, and that turned out to be a correct guess. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: