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 toport 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.
