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> Basically, no sane programmer in the 90s would be happy with a string type that wasted three bytes per object.

Though it was eventually eclipsed by C/C++/Objective-C on Apple platforms, I believe Pascal was the original application programming language for the Apple Lisa and Macintosh, and produced some revolutionary software in the 1980s.

Object Pascal/Delphi certainly enjoyed a fair amount of success in the 1990s.



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