05-16-2023, 02:17 AM
I don't think you have seen the source code of a C library. I was boggled what it took for Mix Software in Richardson, Texas to write what to do with printf() function. Yes I had to buy the source code for the C libraries used with Power C compiler way back in the early 1990's.
But PRINT in QuickBASIC was something M$ guessed correctly that it was going to help give them profits for a short time, and some fame for long afterward. Part of it was writing it for performance, rather than settling for MS-DOS Interrupt #9 (end with dollar sign) or whatever was done by GW-BASIC or by any 8-bit BASIC.
But PRINT in QuickBASIC was something M$ guessed correctly that it was going to help give them profits for a short time, and some fame for long afterward. Part of it was writing it for performance, rather than settling for MS-DOS Interrupt #9 (end with dollar sign) or whatever was done by GW-BASIC or by any 8-bit BASIC.