[BubRoss]

You didn't list any actual game titles, just game makers.

Also quoting someone saying that C destroyed the ability to make compiler optimizations is a little strange when that has been at the core of most software for decades. It's bizarre how much you try to argue about things with mountains of evidence to the contrary.

[beagle3]

While I don't necessarily agree with his claims, it is true that there's a huge gap of about 10-15 years between when FORTRAN compilers did some optimizations and when C compilers were able to do them (and only if you properly annotated things with __restrict, etc). I used FORTRAN77 compilers in the early 1990s that did vectorization / pipelining of the kind C compilers started doing in the last decade.

The main reason, though, is that in FORTRAN, the aliasing rules allow the compiler to assume basically anything, whereas C has sequence points and a (super weak) memory model which don't. But I wouldn't say it is C's fault.

[pjmlp]

Apparently going into the history of the games produced by those game makers is asking too much.

That someone has done more for improving the computing world than either of us ever will.

See that is is the thing with online forums, I tell my point of view and personal lifetime experience, someone like you will dismiss it, then I reply, you dimiss it again as not fitting your view of the world, ask for yet another set of whatever stuff, and I will just watch Netflix for what I care, as I have better things to do with my life than win online discussions.

[BubRoss]

Saying C stops optimizations is a preposterous claim in the modern era, credentials of someone quoted from decades ago have nothing to do with that.

It's hilarious that you would try to make that claim and then expect someone to buy into it.

Write whatever you want on your resume, it doesn't change reality.