On Wednesday, 19 February 2014 at 08:49:36 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 2/19/2014 12:25 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Regarding the last point, I read somewhere that lint was actually supposed to be part of C toolchain, but when most people tried to
port C to home computers it was highly overlooked, hence the
situation we got into with C.

The unix toolchain did not port well to 16 bit machines. The C compilers for the PC were pretty much all built from scratch.

Thanks for the info.

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