"Pascal was the primary high-level language used for development in the Apple Lisa, and in the early years of the Mac; parts of the original Macintosh operating system were hand-translated into Motorola 68000 assembly language from the Pascal sources. ...the C interface for the Macintosh operating system API had to deal in Pascal data types."
My memory was that C was considered a mainframe and IBM PC language, while the relative elegance and sophistication of Pascal was good style for Macs (esp. when leavened by a bit of assembly code).
"Pascal was the primary high-level language used for development in the Apple Lisa, and in the early years of the Mac; parts of the original Macintosh operating system were hand-translated into Motorola 68000 assembly language from the Pascal sources. ...the C interface for the Macintosh operating system API had to deal in Pascal data types."
My memory was that C was considered a mainframe and IBM PC language, while the relative elegance and sophistication of Pascal was good style for Macs (esp. when leavened by a bit of assembly code).