I saw your deleted comment, and while I do believe you worked a lot, you should probably also realize that what you did was also a product of it's time. Now a

I saw your deleted comment, and while I do believe you worked a lot, you should probably also realize that what you did was also a product of it's time. Now a days one cannot just write a compiler in isolation and then make a million bucks (eg: as the author of turbo-c did). Competition is a lot stiffer, things are way more complex (at multiple levels), and finding super unique and 'big bang' ideas are not on every street corner. In other words, the 80s was the low hanging fruit, the 90s slightly less low hanging, and so on and so forth.