Heh. I remember when the concept of subroutines was considered dangerously subversive.
Structured Programming was thought of as revolutionary. Most folks were either doing COBOL or Assembly, at the time. C was just beginning to feel its oats (It was still thought of as a mostly academic language, but it spawned a few languages that were considered "workhorse" languages, like PL/1).
I did start using Pascal, in the 1980s, because that was Apple's native language. It was a very strange language, coming from Assembly, FORTRAN, BASIC, and PL/1.
Structured Programming was thought of as revolutionary. Most folks were either doing COBOL or Assembly, at the time. C was just beginning to feel its oats (It was still thought of as a mostly academic language, but it spawned a few languages that were considered "workhorse" languages, like PL/1).
I did start using Pascal, in the 1980s, because that was Apple's native language. It was a very strange language, coming from Assembly, FORTRAN, BASIC, and PL/1.