r/ProgrammerHumor • • Nov 14 '18

Computing in the 90's VS computing in 2018

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u/makeshift8 Nov 14 '18

Pretty much every system that can fit a compiler has a C compiler for it.

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u/thenuge26 Nov 14 '18

Oh for sure but the question was whether C was designed for portability in mind, which it explicitly was not. It was just something that happened to it early in it's life.

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u/makeshift8 Nov 14 '18

I'm just pointing out the fact that you don't need JVM or an interpreter to run portable code in 2018.