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Modula-2 compilers were slow to appear on many important architectures, and again there were various divergent dialects, and the whole shebang seemed to get sem
by drfuchs 3y ago
Modula-2 compilers were slow to appear on many important architectures, and again there were various divergent dialects, and the whole shebang seemed to get semi-abandoned when Wirth et. al. shifted yet again to Oberon; lather, rinse, repeat. So none of his post-Pascal languages posed practical competition to C for writing portable, cross-platform code, either.
- pjmlp 3y agoVMS, UNIX, MS-DOS, Amiga, Archimedes, seemed important enough for me. C only became portable by bringing UNIX alongside via POSIX. Then there were all those dialects, K&R C, Small-C, RatC, DBS C,...