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opminion on July 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Interview with PacMan Game Designer Toru Iwatani

From that link:

Back then, five years ago, there was no C, so it was a choice between BASIC, Assembler, or Pascal.

Things already changed quite fast in the eighties...

watmough on July 1, 2012 [–]

And even then, there was plenty of C, it just hadn't migrated down to small memory microcomputers yet.

By the mid-Eighties I was doing some dev on C on the Amiga, and on Sun boxes at Uni.

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