It fits well with e.g. extensions to C/C++ compilers. Few would use vendor specific extensions (outside Windows) today for those languages, ...

gcc supports quite a few extensions to the latest C99, and they do get used. I've encountered the ternary operator used as an lvalue in a couple of perl modules, and computed-goto is used by one flavour of Parrot runloop. The C++ practice of intermingling declarations and statements, and declaring for loop variables inline was very wide spread long before they were finally adopted by the C99 revision.

Indeed, without you applying --ansi --pedantic, gcc accepts these and a bunch of other extensions without warning. I have several versions of MS VC and VC++ compiler, and none of them accept extensions without explicitly enabling them as far as I am aware.

I guess my point is that it's too easy and very common to embue MS with "evil intent", as opposed to "over-exploitation of a dominant market position". It's also easy for the younger generations to loose sight of the fact that history is just repeating itself. Google for AT&T "baby bells" 1984 and further back IBM antitrust 1972".

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In reply to Re^14: Perl 6 Module manager by BrowserUk
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