On 1/20/24 15:40, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
On Friday 19 January 2024 09:48:01 pm Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 2:07 PM Thomas Schmitt <scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote:
.....
(Ok, C causes scars on the programmer's self esteem. But what does not
kill me makes me just stronger. I'm a vim user.)
OK I'll mention that to my psychiatrist :-)
But the C programmers I knew were either really nice guys if they wrote C
on unix, or real toads if they wrote C for DOS/Windows. YMMV
Where does that leave those of us that wrote c for CP/M? :-)
Excellent question Roy. Can we add os9 and amigados to that list? And
I'll claim we got the job done in half the time and 1/4 of the bugs than
the pc guy's could do it. os9 C was exactly the first k&r without the
bit twiddling and Jeff cooper's SAS/C 6.51 was C89 or better 5 years
before the C-89 book by K&R. And ARexx beat them both.
Take care ny friend.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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