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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.



Not in Portugal, we were using mostly using Turbo Pascal.

In the 80's using C on MS-DOS, was only seen by those that had UNIX at work or universities and wanted to work home.

It wasn't even C, rather SmallC or any other K&R dialect.

In any case, everyone that cared about performance was using TASM and MASM, writing everything in Assembly.




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