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Was Dennis Ritchie being too modest in this quote about C and Pascal?

In his 1993 conference proceeding The Development of the C Language, Dennis Ritchie stated Successors C and even B have several direct descendants, though they do not rival Pascal in ...
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What caused the downfall of Pascal? [closed]

From 1985 to 1990 Borland's Turbo Pascal was at least as popular as C for DOS systems. Turbo Pascal was especially popular because of it's ground breaking BGI graphics interface while C was stalled in ...
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