1 Mar
2023
1 Mar
'23
12:31 a.m.
On Tue, 28 Feb 2023, Clem Cole wrote:
[...]
A bit later, Loer Zohlman wrote BDS C, which was
pretty darned
good/fairly complete C implementation for the time; [...]
I'm glad that you qualified it with "for the time"; I've used it, and
calling it a "C compiler" was a bit of a stretch[*]. Later on I bought
the Hi-Tech C compiler, and it was full ANSI, with function prototypes
etc.
[*]
I think it was Henry Spencer who said (in relation to some other product):
"Somehow, to be called a C compiler it ought to at least be able to
compile C".
-- Dave