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BIG "C" compiler comparison thread (Developers)

posted by Steve Homepage E-mail, US, 09.03.2008, 09:36

> I actually heard someone claim that Digital Mars (or Zortech,
> whatever) was the first native C++ (PC?) compiler (i.e., not a front-end?).

Walter Bright's Zortech C++ was the first native compiler - earlier ones first expanded C++ code to C, then did the real compiling. It was available for several 80386 PC OSes & for Mac/68030.

 

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