[article] Language Design Deal Breakers

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Sun, 26 May 2013 13:18:32 +0200
Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote:
> 
> Did you had the pleasure to write portable C or C++ code across
> multiple operating systems and vendors in the mid 90's?
> 

Luckily, no. For me it was just Win9x and DOS (using that awesome 32-bit
extender DOOM and every other game of the time used, forget the name.
DOS4GW?). And it was more mid-to-late 90's for me. (And then a little
bit of PalmOS around 2000 or so.)

> Welcome to #ifdef spaghetti code and reluctance of using certain 
> features due to inconsistent support.
>