About Pierre Morel-Fourrier
I am software development consultant, in Paris. I have worked for more than 20 years under Windows as developer, architect or project leader.
I’ve been working on C/C++ projects for 25 years, although I have worked on a few C# WPF/Silverlight projects recently.
You can have a look at my LinkedIn profile, or my MSDN profile.
Here are a few softwares I created, amongst others :
In 1984, Corman, a platform game for Commodore 64 and on Commodore Plus 4, written in 6502 assembly language.
In 1985, Runway, a racing game for Thomson TO7 and MO5, written in 6809 assembly language, with a cross assembler on IBM-PC (there was no development tool on the machine itself)
In 1987, a C langage interpreter for Atari ST, published in France by Loriciel. With an integrated multi window editor, it allowed anyone to learn C language without using makefiles, command line tools, etc.
C Interpreter has been written in C, with Lattice C compiler, which has been bought by Microsoft to become Microsoft-C 1.0!
In 1988, C Interpreter was translated in English for the UK by Hisoft, and became Hisoft-C, and for the US in 1989 by Michtron :
From 1991 to 1993, I’ve been working as a developer for Visual C++ 1.0 and 1.5 under Windows 3.1, and Visual C++ 2.0 for Windows NT. I have particularly developed text editor, class browser, project manager and the Windows NT debugger. At that time, the team was 3 to 6 developers (without the C compiler itself), leaded by Jeff Beehler.
In 2009-2011, I was contractor for Thomson Reuters Eikon development team. It is a huge C/C++/C# project developped in Paris, Bangkok and New York. This is the kind of software market traders use, so they get financial news half a second before others. Using C/C++ is mandatory for this kind of project because the speed of information really matters.
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Pierre Morel-Fourrier
That is quite interesting! Was HiSoft C an interpreter only, or also a compiler? Thanks, Neil
As far as I can remember, « Hisoft C Interpreter » was the C interpreter I wrote. But Hisoft also bought the Lattice C Compiler for Atari and/or Amiga, and distributed it as « Hisoft C Compiler ». There were two « Hisoft C », a compiler and an interpreter. In fact, I wrote the C interpreter with Lattice C!