Hello Liam Proven,
[re Pascal, Modula, etc.]
You [Rugxulo] also said: >> (So it was too many competing languages,
honestly.)> Also not really
fair.> I mean, arguably, yes, but there are also dozens of variants of
C.> There's original C, K&R C, Plan 9 C, ANSI C, C 99, C11, C17 and soon
C23.> All are C. All are different. Code from one may not work in others.
And of course there is Limbo, Go, C++, C#, D, and myriad variants.
Not quite. There is a clear difference between a "dialect" of C, and a
language that is only kind of "influenced" by C. In brief, any compiler
that claims to be a "C compiler" --- including GCC, the Intel C
compiler, or even Plan 9's C compiler --- had better be able to compile
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("Hello world!");
return 0;
}
into a program that actually prints "Hello world!".
In contrast, we do not expect (say) a Java, Go, or C# compiler to accept
the above program, or even to make it print "Hello world!". Because
Java is not a dialect of C, and does not claim to be one.
Thank you!
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