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or use a free (libre or gratis) compiler. GNU Compiler Collection was released over three decades ago, or the BSD licensed Portable C Compiler that was initiall
by smegger001 6y ago
or use a free (libre or gratis) compiler. GNU Compiler Collection was released over three decades ago, or the BSD licensed Portable C Compiler that was initially released over forty years ago, as for Basic many operating systems had a basic interpreter or compiler built in.
- pjmlp 6y agoWhen it became something usable on PCs we are already talking about past Windows 98.
- cesarb 6y agoI learned programming on MS-DOS with DJGPP, which is basically the GNU Compiler Collection (and lots of other GNU software) for MS-DOS. It certainly was usable (and included two free IDEs: RHIDE and Emacs), it was as good as GCC on Unix except for the lack of multitasking (which is what led me to Linux). This was long before Windows 98; the earliest DJGPP I can find is from 1994, and I had already migrated from DJGPP to GCC on Linux before 1998.