Re:Rust: Not So Great For Codec Implementing
by pjmlp on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @02:26AM
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Sorry but on my little corner of the planet, in the Iberian Peninsula, everyone was using Turbo Basic and Turbo Pascal, when not coding in Assembly for MS-DOS.
On the PC, C and C++ only started to be widely adopted as we started to code for Windows 3.x, due to the APIs being available as C instead of interrupts.
At the technical school I was attending, I was the outlier by having had the opportunity to get hold of Borland's Turbo C++ 1.0 for MS-DOS, everyone else couldn't care less.
Most Portuguese and Spanish magazines of the 80's and early 90's were full all imaginable programming languages for C64, ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari and MS-DOS. C didn't had a better spot on those articles than the other languages, quite the contrary.
Fellow Iberian HNers are free to correct my experience of those years.
On the PC, C and C++ only started to be widely adopted as we started to code for Windows 3.x, due to the APIs being available as C instead of interrupts.
At the technical school I was attending, I was the outlier by having had the opportunity to get hold of Borland's Turbo C++ 1.0 for MS-DOS, everyone else couldn't care less.
Most Portuguese and Spanish magazines of the 80's and early 90's were full all imaginable programming languages for C64, ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari and MS-DOS. C didn't had a better spot on those articles than the other languages, quite the contrary.
Fellow Iberian HNers are free to correct my experience of those years.