Hi HN, I had been working on a new programming language for a while. I bought a C programming book, thinking it covered the modern version for GCC, but the book actually taught Turbo C and I was truly amazed at how simple it was. When I went to install Turbo C, I realized it was an old compiler...
Source: [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262401)