Comment by anexprogrammer
10 years ago
The really sad part is MS licensed Lattice for the first couple of versions of MS C, yet Lattice itself was markedly faster. If I remember right it didn't even come with any debugger though Lattice did (not sure about v1).
I took a real dislike to Windows and MFC and moved back to the Unix side of things, so my Win programming was pleaingly brief. :)
Your experience is almost the inverse of mine - we had a few juniors comng on with Pascal as they'd learnt that in uni, but they were easy to convert to C. Just about everyone I knew in those days were C/nix or C/DOS, with just a few hanging on still trying to make a living on the Amiga - mainly games devs.
I wasn't aware of the Lattice story, interesting.
Yeah, I guess in the old days before the Internet and with expensive BBS connections, the technology had more silos than nowadays, because it was harder to move masses for any given technology.