Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 11:34:21 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org>, "Steve B." <steveb99@earthlink.net>, "Eugene L. Vorokov" <vel@bugz.infotecs.ru>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C vs C++ Message-ID: <3C866F3D.BBB383A@mindspring.com> References: <20020305164151.T5854-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> <3C8529DA.FA8ABCE@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020306073237.00cd0b00@localhost> <3C8659BC.C2FD35ED@mindspring.com> <15494.23436.196349.224108@caddis.yogotech.com> <3C8661EB.934CC478@mindspring.com> <15494.25629.4763.761844@caddis.yogotech.com> <3C866897.649BCC6F@mindspring.com> <15494.26991.417780.56393@caddis.yogotech.com>
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Nate Williams wrote: > > > (I've got Stroustrup's book next to me, and it wasn't even started until > > > '85, and I don't know when the first C++ compiler became publically > > > available.) > > > > I'm rounding... 8-). We had "cfront" and "The Oregon C++ > > Compiler" back in the early 1980's (definitely before 1985, > > since I was working by then). > > Again, you *couldn't* have, since it didn't exist. Ugh. You're right. It was January of 1988 for the Oregon Software C++ compiler (Taumetric's compiler). Amazing! It looks like g++ beat them to market in December of 1987. I'm pretty sure Weber had cfront 1.0 as part of the source license contract, but that may have been 1988 as well (the 2.0 came out in October of 1988). But all this was well after I left College to work, and only hung out there. Actually, there's a nice paper on all of it: "The C++ Report -- So Far" http://www.develop.com/hp/slip/gems.html -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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