top | item 8030273 (no title) pling | 11 years ago That's not a proper C compiler though, as Microsoft like to point out regularly as a lame excuse... discuss order hn newest 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.
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..)
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.
fdej|11 years ago
ibisum|11 years ago
pjmlp|11 years ago
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.