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[Arjan]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:32:05 +0200, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org>  
wrote:

> On Wednesday, 10 October 2012 at 14:44:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 10/10/2012 4:49 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 10 October 2012 at 11:50:29 UTC, Manu wrote:
>>>> Really? Is it an MS thing? I'm amazed the other compilers haven't  
>>>> adopted
>>>> that in the last 10 years or whatever.
>>>
>>> Yes, it is a Microsoft extension. I never saw it in any other C or C++  
>>> compiler.
>>
>> Digital Mars C and C++ !!
>
> I only became aware of Digital Mars thanks to D, I must confess.
>
> When I moved away from Turbo Pascal, I started using Turbo C and Turbo  
> C++, followed by Borland C++ and eventually Visual C++.
>
> Then at the university I started to use vendor's C and C++ compilers of  
> the multiple UNIX systems we had access to.
>
> I used to see adverts for Watcom C/C++, High C/C++ and Zortech C/C++ in  
> computer magazines, but never knew anyone that had access to them.
>

You really missed something. For years Zortech/Sysmantec/DigitalMars C++  
has been my preferred compiler. Generated fast code very fast! With being  
STLport'ed it also had decent support for STL. It often times barked about  
issues with Type checking other compilers did not even mention. Which  
saved me from quite a few bugs.
When porting big C++ libraries like wxWidgets (then wxWindows) it became  
apparent to me DMC++ did need the least special treatment to make it  
compile the code. Also ported various Boost libs to it.
It wasn't util VS2005 came along before I started shifting away...

About Watcom? Well a complete opposite experience...

Arjan