Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dave Froble Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: New VSI blog post Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 13:41:06 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <3a8759652d4cb95dbb082ab251229b39804dd554@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 19:40:52 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a4f2012d56861708aa23a12bfbc8a9a8"; logging-data="2405055"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/otcOEE63/1d+Mm3RPyKNSqdWIY1vJLXk=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:gqsZ4CXIluSUwuGfQzU0f2BkMx8= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2565 On 8/1/2024 7:16 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > On 7/31/2024 11:20 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> On Wed, 31 Jul 2024 22:46:18 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >>> On 7/31/2024 10:38 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>>> Been there, done that sort of thing, before your time (early 1990s). >>> >>> Early 90's before John's time???? >> >> When did DEC embrace ANSI C? > > The standard happened in 1989 (ANSI) and 1990 (ISO). > > I am not sure when DEC C 4.0 shipped, but given that > VAX C never existed on Alpha, then together with the first > VMS Alpha release in 1992 seems like a good guess. > > And it takes time to implement a new compiler, so > it seems likely that the ink on the printed copy > of the standard was barely dry before management at > DEC said go. > > But I don't think John did C back then - as I recall > it was: > Pascal - Reagan > Fortran - Lionel > C - Vogel I'm pretty sure DEC C was on VAX before Alpha was available. -- David Froble Tel: 724-529-0450 Dave Froble Enterprises, Inc. E-Mail: davef@tsoft-inc.com DFE Ultralights, Inc. 170 Grimplin Road Vanderbilt, PA 15486