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Re:FFmpeg and a thousand fixes by pjmlp on Friday January 10, 2014 @03:33PM (#7039177)
When C was UNIX only, the generated code quality also had a lot to be desired.
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Re:FFmpeg and a thousand fixes by vinkelhake on Friday January 10, 2014 @04:21PM (#7039505)
Sorry, I don't get what you're arguing here. Are you saying the C-compilers generated poor code when the FFmpeg project was started back in 2000? Are you arguing that if the FFmpeg project had used Modula-2, this would have sparked more work on Modula-2 compilers?

Or are you perhaps just wishing that history had taken a different turn?

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Re:FFmpeg and a thousand fixes by Crito on Friday January 10, 2014 @04:24PM (#7039527)
The initial release of FFmpeg was in 2000, well after that stage in C's life.
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