Some advanced BCC topics

Posted Feb 23, 2018 4:20 UTC (Fri) by akkornel (subscriber, #75292)
Parent article: Some advanced BCC topics

Completely off-topic:

A good April 1st thing would be to post a follow-up, "Some more advanced BCC topics", and have the article be entirely about email.

Some advanced BCC topics

Posted Feb 24, 2018 1:07 UTC (Sat) by xtifr (guest, #143) [Link] (5 responses)

Not to mention the specialized 8086 C compiler you'll get if you type "apt-get install bcc" on most Debian based systems. Which claims to be important for "the development of boot loaders or BIOS-related 8086 code".

A mildly unfortunate overloading of TLAs at best.

Some advanced BCC topics

Posted Feb 26, 2018 21:34 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (4 responses)

The "bcc" tool could also have been the Borland compiler (historically). Woe to those still using it.

Some advanced BCC topics

Posted Mar 1, 2018 12:26 UTC (Thu) by ianmcc (subscriber, #88379) [Link] (3 responses)

A good compiler in its day though. Borland C++ was astounding, compared with the Microsoft C++ at the time - it was a decade or so (and a change of head of their C++ group) before Microsoft decided that any kind of standards compliance was worth aiming for.

Some advanced BCC topics

Posted Mar 2, 2018 17:39 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (2 responses)

I think it was my first C++ compiler[1] (the Dev-C++ IDE), though mostly due to it being free and me being just a grade school student. I don't remember having bad experiences with it specifically, but it has not kept up with the times…

[1]TI-GCC was probably my first C compiler.

Some advanced BCC topics

Posted Mar 3, 2018 18:51 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

If you want a blast from the past, http://tvision.sf.net/ might be worth a look, or would be if *.sf.net wasn't down at the moment. (It's amazing how archaic it seems now, without having changed a bit.)

Some advanced BCC topics

Posted Mar 5, 2018 15:24 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

> without having changed a bit

I see Debian Jessie in the list there, so it's not completely unchanged. ;)