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Picuino:
I started programming with a serious language (not BASIC) with TurboPascal 6.0, which already included object-oriented programming in 1990. It also had a built-in assembler, debugger and helper, as well as an extensive library system that made programming text-mode user interfaces much easier.

On the other hand, Microsoft Quick-C 2.5 had much less capabilities (from my point of view) and was not as well regarded then as TurboPascal.


--- Quote from: coppice on July 22, 2022, 08:49:43 pm ---I've been writing C for 45 years.

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Congratulations, I have been programming in C for much less time.

Edit: In my case, 25 years of C coding.
rsjsouza:
Man, reply #4 to start the BS finger wagging context...  :palm:

At any rate, happy 50th! I hope many more to come (C coder for 25+ years).


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--- Quote from: Picuino on July 22, 2022, 07:22:48 am ---The first version of the C language (the C compiler and some utilities made with it) appeared in 1972. I have not been able to find out in which month exactly. In any case I am very happy for the 50th anniversary.

At the time it took me a little bit of a big effort to learn C. In those years the fashionable language was Pascal and its implementation by Borland, TurboPascal. TurboPascal had many libraries and was much more productive than C in the MS-DOS based PC environment.

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Your timing is a bit off. Pascal was loved by academics in the early 70s, but had little presence elsewhere until the 1980s and TurboPascal. Several C compilers, notably Lattice C, appeared about the same time as TurboPascal, but were more expensive. TurboPascal's low price gained it a strong following. Cheap C compilers were a bit late.

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Indeed. I remember how Borland's "Turbo" IDEs were exceptional development platforms - I started with Turbo Basic, having a quick stint on Turbo Pascal and landing on Turbo C. In my life all that came after I was actually building my PC programs in Tasm (Turbo Assembler).


--- Quote from: coppice on July 22, 2022, 08:49:43 pm ---I've been writing C for 45 years.

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SiliconWizard:
And then there was Delphi. And it's still being used. Definitely never died.
mclute0:
I will have to dig out my original book, The C Programming language by Brian W. Kernighan & Dennis M. Ritchie and read it all again. True heroes the modern world. Salute!
BrianHG:
I tried C on my firs Amiga with a 68000 processor, 2.5mb ram and a super slow HD.
No way, too long to compile. (1989ish)

I tried again when I got my 25MHz 68030 Amiga 3000 with 10mb ram and a top performance 7200 RPM SCSI HD. (1993ish)
Ok, now I was hooked as compiling time was actually good.
Though a lot of code was copy & paste modified examples from existing source code with my algorithms in-between.

I didn't delve deeper into a modern C compiler until I had access to a C compiler for Microchip MCUs and had to do a DSPIC project for my exercise bike controller.  Then it was more fun as compile times were only around 2 seconds.
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