alt Hacker NewsKind of both? There were pre-standard compilers, but when they created the standard, they tried to make it so that one could write really dumb compilers and still fulfill the standard.
Kind of both? There were pre-standard compilers, but when they created the standard, they tried to make it so that one could write really dumb compilers and still fulfill the standard.
I suspect it was also the case that if they didn't make it easy for platform vendors to implement compilers then they wouldn't do it.