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10 Years ago? Pfft, we are still taught C with Borland turbo C in our CS engineering course.



Let me guess you are an Indian?

I remember back then(2002'ish), Pretty much all CS labs had Borland Turbo C.

The funny thing was the output prompt would disappear after printing things, so to hold it there, people would add getch(). This was so common, I remember at one point people treated getch() was something you always added at the end of the main(), like a return statement.




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