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> Obvious, since those systems pre-dated PDP-11 hardware. Well, I was actually referring to the equivalent running on PDP-11 (like Algol68) > Have you ever co
by pmelendez 11y ago
> Obvious, since those systems pre-dated PDP-11 hardware.
Well, I was actually referring to the equivalent running on PDP-11 (like Algol68)
> Have you ever coded C before ANSI C was approved?
>It was only portable to UNIX itself, just like those other OSes and their systems programming languages.
I meant machine portability. Before C, to have a lower level like performance you needed to use machine-specific assembly.
- pjmlp 11y agoC compilers generated so bad code that games only started using it in home computers instead of Assembly during the mid-90's. On workstations and mainframes there was hardly any difference to other heigher level system programming languages. In fact C prevented many compiler optimizations due to its aliasing and decay of arrays into pointers.
- moomin 11y agoAmazing how few people remember that Fortran compilers always outperformed C compilers in the "bad old days".