Afpex bought the whole lot from a German company called Compsoft, so they got what was on offer...
C++ is also a great way to write crap software, because of the extra abstraction. Firms that develop embedded systems using C++ have lots of fun with it. Once you don't have a GUI you can't put up an "insufficient memory" error and give up
C+asm is the way to go
but then producing decent code takes 10x longer