Some of those comments are pure hilarity: "C got popular because it turned out to be ideally suited for DOS. C could deal with near/far pointers. No other langu

Some of those comments are pure hilarity: "C got popular because it turned out to be ideally suited for DOS. C could deal with near/far pointers. No other language could". Yes, C was very good at having two (or even three, "huge" being fully-normalized far pointers) completely differently sized kinds of pointers, without any proprietary extensions, absolutely, and it caused no problems whatsoever because C memory model indeed presupposes a segmented address space.