Why the Microsoft C++ compiler sucks

[dteviot]

Some amusing/scary history from the Microsoft development team.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/ ... piler.aspx

[psi29a]

Nice find.

[Ace (SWE)]

Just the fact that they basically wrote their first C compiler back-end to work under those conditions is pretty impressive, though less impressive is the fact that it's still basically working like such.