Also there is to note that most BASIC implementations had support for automatic memory management, at least for strings and arrays, the structured compiled dialects even better.
Also database programming with languages like Clipper and FoxPro.
And even if we stay in the UNIX world, that is exactly using stuff like Perl also allowed for, C like programming without the headaches of manual memory management.
https://interlisp.org/
http://toastytech.com/guis/cedar.html
"Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4&t=2s
"Making Smalltalk"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaOMiNku1_M
http://www.edm2.com/index.php/VisualAge_Smalltalk
Also there is to note that most BASIC implementations had support for automatic memory management, at least for strings and arrays, the structured compiled dialects even better.
Also database programming with languages like Clipper and FoxPro.
And even if we stay in the UNIX world, that is exactly using stuff like Perl also allowed for, C like programming without the headaches of manual memory management.
Or the brief fad of 4GL languages.