24 Apr
2017
24 Apr
'17
6:40 a.m.
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:04:49AM +1000, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Saturday, 22 April 2017 at 17:13:00 -0700, Larry
McVoy wrote:
Yeah, there were hiccups moving but it wasn't hard.
On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 07:07:13AM +1000, Dave
Horsfall wrote:
Yes, I think this is a reasonable viewpoint. It was my first ever C
environment, and I really recognized how non-standard it was when I
got a standard C compiler and had to rethink (and rewrite). I remember BDS C for all the wrong reasons; I can
only repeat a remark
from Henry Spencer about another alleged C compiler: "To be called a C
compiler, it ought to at least be able to compile C." My Z-80 C compiler
was Hi-Tech C, which was full ANSI.
I've never heard of Hi-Tech C but I am apparently more forgiving. I
spent many happy hours using BDS C. It wasn't exactly standard, the
standard I/O library was far from compat, but whatever, it was a C
compiler on a CP/M system. Pretty pleasant. Am I correct in remembering that this was the compiler
that Craig
Finseth used for MINCE, my first exposure to (also non-standard)
Emacs?
No idea, never heard of MINCE.