Your First THINK C Program
THINK C was the straight successor of Lightspeed C, and I came from there, and before that from Turbo/TML Pascal on the IIgs.<p>Whatever people will say, I still miss these "one pass" compilers, they were amazing and peaked with CodeWarrior, the best development suite, ever, in my nearly 40 years experience.<p>Nowadays we see autoshit "configure" stuff and compilers like gcc (some) or clang (oh my frigging GOD!!) trawl their way slowly and painfully thru the most simple projects without even support for plain basic stuff like automatic precompiled headers.<p>Wow look, we've NEARLY got Link Time Optimization working (took decades), in 2020 whoohoo, I'm so delighted. I could compile <i>hundred of thousands</i> of lines of light C++ or (better) plain C 25 years ago on a much, MUCH slower machine, with an simple editor that used the compiler lexer output so you had highlighting, real indexing it was 'just there' and always right, and always blinding fast.<p>I'm pretty sure we are way worse than we were 20 years ago for tooling. I'm sure some people will disagree, these people haven't seen CodeWarrior chew thru hundreds and hundreds of files in seconds.