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Re:X.org Server Clears Out Remnants for Supporting Old Compi... by ok123456 on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @06:53PM (#39461306)
Lack of standards compliance, bugs, and generally unhelpful compilation error reporting. It was a nightmare for the OOP class, which used more compiler features. Couple that with undergraduate sophomores and juniors trying to do things at the last moment, and you'll have a lot of former CS majors.
Re:X.org Server Clears Out Remnants for Supporting Old Compi... by jjjjoe on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @10:08PM (#39462714)
Sounds like the sort of program that'd give you a 0 on an assignment if it worked perfectly but emitted a compiler warning under Sun Studio