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A fair amount of non-game Amiga scene, including the OS, was either BCPL or C.
by tyingq 2y ago
A fair amount of non-game Amiga scene, including the OS, was either BCPL or C.
- pjmlp 2y agoSure, when performance didn't matter. Just like on MS-DOS side, I did plenty of stuff on Turbo BASIC, Turbo Pascal, Turbo C (quickly replaced by Turbo C++), and Clipper, until Windows 3.x and OS/2 came to be. Small utilities, or business applications, without big resources demands.
- tyingq 2y agoOr, where portability did matter. That was still true much later...web servers were often mostly C, then inline ASM for the SSL parts.
- pjmlp 2y agoBy then we were already in Windows 95 and Windows NT territory, with OS/2 still waving on the side, and game developers being shown the door to WinG, DirectX's percusor.
- snvzz 2y ago>BCPL Was used by some parts of AmigaDOS (dos.library) and it is unfortunate. AFAIK nothing third party uses BCPL.