Re:C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness
by jacquesm on Saturday August 19, 2023 @02:27PM
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In what year did you start programming professionally and in what languages was that done and on what kind of machines?
Re:C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness
by pjmlp on Sunday August 20, 2023 @02:47AM
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Ah, trying a trick question?
In 1992, using a mix of Turbo Pascal, DBase III+ and Clipper on MS-DOS computers, and Novell Netware.
Re:C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness
by jacquesm on Sunday August 20, 2023 @07:23AM
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> Ah, trying a trick question?
No, I was just curious. Why would you even think I was trying to trick you? And into what?
You normally make a ton of sense but in this thread I can't follow you and I sense a ton of emotion and projection that are entirely out of character for you.
What triggers me is the usual kind of message that C wiped everything away, being the first of its kind, when on other realities, it only started to matter when UNIX tooling became part of the picture.
On my bubble C became a thing, when Windows 3.0 went mainstream.
Coding in C on MS-DOS was mostly preparing exercises for Xenix programming classes, a single tower that students had to take turns on, so we need to prepare everything in advance on Turbo C 2.0.
On Amiga it was mostly Assembly and AMOS, on the demoscene community I was part of.