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Lack of portability: the 'standard' Pascal was very limited and each implementation added its own incompatible extension. So when a free C compiler was released
by renox 5y ago
Lack of portability: the 'standard' Pascal was very limited and each implementation added its own incompatible extension.
So when a free C compiler was released..
- Pet_Ant 5y agoThe seems to be an intractable problem. To survive a technology needs to be a commodity, but for a product to succeed the business needs lockin. So there is no growth around standards by people making money off of them.
- pjmlp 5y agoIn the early days, if you wanted a proper C compiler you had to log into a UNIX. C compilers available for 8 and 16 bit computers weren't even fully K&R C.