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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. --- End quote --- 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). --- Quote from: coppice on July 22, 2022, 08:49:43 pm --- --- 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. --- End quote --- 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. --- End quote --- 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. --- End quote --- :clap: :clap: :clap: |
| 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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