On 2/19/2014 12:25 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Regarding the last point, I read somewhere that lint was actually supposed to be part of C toolchain, but when most people tried to port C to home computers it was highly overlooked, hence the situation we got into with C.
The unix toolchain did not port well to 16 bit machines. The C compilers for the PC were pretty much all built from scratch.