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		chaosite 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hacktical C: practical hacker's guide to the C pro... MSVC always focused on C++, and C was treated as an afterthought.

pjmlp 5 months ago [–]

The irony is that Microsoft was the very last MS-DOS compiler vendor to support C++ in their C tooling with Microsoft C/C++ 7 in 1992, that changed with the release of Visual C++ in 1993.

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