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pling | 11 years ago

That's not a proper C compiler though, as Microsoft like to point out regularly as a lame excuse...

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fdej|11 years ago

Yet enough people think it's a C compiler that if you try to use avant garde C99 features in your C project, someone will invariably complain that MSVC doesn't build it.

ibisum|11 years ago

.. thus giving up C and moving on to C# instead. (Students, I'm looking at you..)

pjmlp|11 years ago

MSVC is actually called MSVC++.

Microsoft is committed to C++, as a means to improve systems programming safety with more modern languages.

Besides, the code makes use of GCC extensions.