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> Windows didn't standardize on C. It was mostly assembly and some Pascal in the beginning with C and C++ later.

No, it was never Pascal. It was always C from the beginning. You may have been confused by them using the Pascal calling convention because it was generally faster on the 16-bit CPUs of the time.



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