23 Feb
2012
23 Feb
'12
3:22 a.m.
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
This is interesting. It shows that (apparently) early
on, assembler was
viewed as the primary programming language.
Well, C didn't exactly spring from Zeus's brow :-) A good chunk of the
C library was in assembler, as were quite a number of programs.
It also shows the consequences a small, apparently
local decision can have:
here we are 40+ years later and GCC on Windows is still preprending
underscores to function names!
When it comes to Windoze, nothing surprises me any more. Unix has evolved
over the years, but Windoze was spat out and hatched.
-- Dave