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Re:The cost of forsaking C by Ar-Curunir on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @12:01PM (#12645011)
I'm pretty sure C did not have a plethora of compilers six years after birth. Even if it did, they were probably wildly inconsistent.
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Re:The cost of forsaking C by kibwen on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @01:03PM (#12645640)
They were absolutely inconsistent. It wasn't until 17 years after its inception that a C standard was agreed upon.
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