Comments by "OpenGL4ever" (@OpenGL4ever) on "David Hoffman"
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@ In 1992, Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 cost around 350 DM in computer stores. Adjusted for inflation, that would be about EUR 348.02 today. That was too much for me as a child and I would not have been allowed to raid my savings account. In addition, my parents could have reversed the purchase at any time, since as a child in Germany one did not yet have the necessary legal capacity to spend such an amount. The first software I paid money for was a PC game, but games were much cheaper than a compiler and i was still a kid. So I was only able to buy one book on GW-Basic, and later one for QuickBasic.
And as for my father. When I asked him about buying a compiler, he first asked me what it was and what you could do with it. Then I told him that i could program software with it. After that he said I didn't need it, since software was already available everywhere. And that there would be more than enough software and there would be nothing to develop. Mind you, that was in 1992. Before the release of Windows NT. So much for my father's attitude towards this technology. Because of that answer, I never asked him again.
Later, when I was older, I thought I would need a 32-bit compiler for Windows. However, I didn't have a computer suitable for Windows 95, so I put it off. So, I didn't get a compiler until much later, with the GNU C and C++ compilers. It would have been great to have a C compiler much earlier; it would have saved me a lot of stress.
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