C got ubiquitous well before Linux, at least. I'd date it back to the '80s on microcomputers ( mostly meaning DOS) .
Lots of Pascal, but Pascal really was an engineering constraint at the time if you were doing actual system
programming. And back then, that was a serious consideration.
Lots of Pascal, but Pascal really was an engineering constraint at the time if you were doing actual system programming. And back then, that was a serious consideration.