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But C on microcomputers did not come any earlier than Pascal or Modula-2 compilers.

My first compiler was Modula-2 on my Atari ST. But it was difficult to do much in it because so much of the OS documentation and example code was geared towards C. Also compiling on a floppy based system (couldn't afford a hard disk) was terrible.



I had to do lots of transfers with floppies but never had to do iterative development on one. I feel for you, bro. :)




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