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As a Canadian, I can attest chest-thumping is not our forté

As an American, I knew multiple of those were from Waterloo, but not all. The post makes me think Waterloo does not realize they're totally respected.

Another thing we're not good at

I think the list I wanted / expected was, “10 things we’re really proud were invented at Waterloo (that you may or may not realize were invented here)”

Watcom was pretty big in the C/C++ world in the 90's, I think. I was only doing a little bit of C/C++ programming back then but I kept hearing about it.

For a 90s minute, between like 93 and 96. Visual Studio 6.0's VC++ swallowed its market amazingly rapidly.