On 1/20/24 15:40, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
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.On Friday 19 January 2024 09:48:01 pm Nicholas Geovanis wrote:On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 2:07 PM Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:.....(Ok, C causes scars on the programmer's self esteem. But what does notkill 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. YMMVWhere does that leave those of us that wrote c for CP/M? :-)
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