On: Modula-2 GCC compiler front-end patches sent out f...

[zokier]

Probably is related to the fact that UNIX and Windows were intrisically C systems. While obviously you could program Modula-2 on both, it was a second-class citizen

[pjmlp → zokier]

On Windows, Turbo Pascal for Windows, followed by Delphi, were everywhere, in similar scale to Visual Basic.

But then Borland decided to go after enterprise market, and they never recovered from the damage.

Their products are still strong among the German market, though.

https://entwickler-konferenz.de

[anta40 → zokier]

I'm not old enough to experience UNIX in mid 80/90s. By reading various stories and hear some anecdotes, seems that UNIX is a nice bandwagon for C.

Except classic MacOS, Pascal wasn't that popular for system programming.

The culture still survive until today. Try searching at OSDev forum or Github, and you'll see most kernel projects are done in C.