Just a minor new twist on free()

[Walter Bright]

In article <335 at bii.UUCP> gegu at bii.UUCP (Gerhard Gucher) writes:
<And as we all agree (I hope), the gain of portability to non ANSI
<systems is well worth it anyways. (Keep in mind, most in use systems
<don't carry ANSI yet ( Mess - DOS doesn't count as a system (:-) ).

In my experience, MS-DOS has the most advanced and polished programming
tools available on it. (Probably because of the intense competition
among programming tool vendors.) Practically all of the C compilers
for it that have any significance are nearly 100% ANSI conformant. I
can't say that for other systems I have used.

If other systems are so superior, why aren't their programming environments
up to the standards of the MS-DOS world?