Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN-like languages
De : tnp (at) *nospam* invalid.invalid (The Natural Philosopher)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 29. Sep 2024, 07:22:45
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On 29/09/2024 04:11, rbowman wrote:
On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 22:28:46 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
I started out on BDS C which had sever limitations, not the least was
promoting everything 8 bit to 16 bit to do comparisons etc.
For what it was Zolman's Brain Dead Software was great. Even after the the
repackaged Lattice C Microsoft first used had limitations.
Looking back nearly all the C compilers I used in the 80s were crap.
There was BDS C for the Z80
Introl C for 6809
Digital Research C for 8066/8
Lattice C for the same
Microsoft C
Then along came Gnu C and everyone wanted to fix its bugs and they could, so it just took over.
I think the worst thing was Turbo Pascal, which convinced huge numbers of amateurs that they could actually write code.
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Re: The joy of FORTRAN-like languages
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