On Thursday, 11 October 2012 at 07:18:45 UTC, Arjan wrote:
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:32:05 +0200, Paulo Pinto
<pj...@progtools.org> wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 October 2012 at 14:44:20 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 10/10/2012 4:49 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 October 2012 at 11:50:29 UTC, Manu wrote:
Really? Is it an MS thing? I'm amazed the other compilers
haven't adopted
that in the last 10 years or whatever.
Yes, it is a Microsoft extension. I never saw it in any
other C or C++ compiler.
Digital Mars C and C++ !!
I only became aware of Digital Mars thanks to D, I must
confess.
When I moved away from Turbo Pascal, I started using Turbo C
and Turbo C++, followed by Borland C++ and eventually Visual
C++.
Then at the university I started to use vendor's C and C++
compilers of the multiple UNIX systems we had access to.
I used to see adverts for Watcom C/C++, High C/C++ and Zortech
C/C++ in computer magazines, but never knew anyone that had
access to them.
You really missed something. For years
Zortech/Sysmantec/DigitalMars C++ has been my preferred
compiler. Generated fast code very fast! With being STLport'ed
it also had decent support for STL. It often times barked about
issues with Type checking other compilers did not even mention.
Which saved me from quite a few bugs.
When porting big C++ libraries like wxWidgets (then wxWindows)
it became apparent to me DMC++ did need the least special
treatment to make it compile the code. Also ported various
Boost libs to it.
It wasn't util VS2005 came along before I started shifting
away...
About Watcom? Well a complete opposite experience...
Arjan
I guess the Portuguese market was too small for having those
compilers available.
