True, on the other hand writing portable code was a mess, even if we constrained ourselves to UNIX world, as each vendor compiler supported a different flavour of the standard.

I had some fun between HP-UX aC, AIX xlC, Solaris cc, and Red-Hat gcc, and naturally there was MSVC as well.

We had #ifdefs in place for prototypes, because the version of the aC compiler we had on our development server still only supported K&R C function definitions.