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		pjmlp on Aug 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Are So Many Developers Hating on Object-Orient... Tex was implemented in Pascal and uses web2c to generate C code. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX Had he implemented it directly in C he would be sending checks every day.

jstimpfle on Aug 25, 2019 | [–]

> Had he implemented it directly in C he would be sending checks every day.

He used Pascal maybe not for the reasons you think. Remember it was the early 70s. If you actually look at the TeX source code, I'm pretty sure you won't find the kind of Pascal you envision.

Nowadays, Knuth does use C directly. (FWIW)

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