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Basically because Microsoft picked C++ to be the main language for Windows development. Turbo Pascal was all very well but from Microsoft's point of view it wa
by mjw1007 9y ago
Basically because Microsoft picked C++ to be the main language for Windows development.
Turbo Pascal was all very well but from Microsoft's point of view it was Not Invented Here.
- WalterBright 9y agoC++ wasn't invented at Microsoft, either. The DOS C++ train had already left the station (Zortech C++) and Microsoft wasn't about to be left behind. (Zortech didn't invent C++, either, I don't want to give that impression.)
- pjmlp 9y agoActually if I remember correctly they were the very last PC C compiler vendor to add support for C++.