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Your perspective on this may be distorted due to your personal involvement. Do you believe MSVC++ or Turbo C++ would still have existed without Zortech C++ arr
by wasmperson 4mo ago
Your perspective on this may be distorted due to your personal involvement. Do you believe MSVC++ or Turbo C++ would still have existed without Zortech C++ arriving first? Because if so then I don't think you can really take credit for C++ popularity on the PC.
- WalterBright 4mo ago> Do you believe MSVC++ or Turbo C++ would still have existed without Zortech C++ arriving first? Nope. As I mentioned, Borland was working on their own OOP C language. ZTC++'s success caused them to abandon it and do Turbo C++. I know this because of my conversations with Eugene Wang. And Turbo C++'s success caused Microsoft to do MSVC++, which was quite late to the game. Before C++, the newsgroup traffic on C++ and ObjC was about the same. The C++ traffic took off after ZTC++ was released.
- WalterBright 4mo agoYou can verify some of this by: 1. looking at newsgroup programming language traffic over time 2. looking at the release dates of Zortech C++, Turbo C++, and MSVC++ 3. looking at the programming magazines of the time and what language/compiler they used 4. looking at the programming magazines at the time and seeing they were all about programming on the PC, not mainframes, and not Unix.