[Info-vax] C99 stuff (Re: The Road to V9.0)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/8/2019 4:25 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <qdeu54$73b$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> 
>> On 6/7/2019 3:17 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> Back in the day, DEC's compilers were widely recognized as the  best,
>>> and in many cases were the de-facto industry standard.
>>
>> Were there anything but Fortran that was DEC?
>>
>> As I remember it then PL/I and Cobol were IBM, C were Unix,
>> Pascal was Apple and Borland and Basic was Microsoft.
> 
> Are you confusing VMS with DEC?  C was developed on a PDP.

I don't think so,

We are discussing de facto industry standards.

I have often heard about C headers that should be there
because they exist on Unix.

I have never ever heard about C headers that should be there
because they exist on PDP-11 any OS.

Arne