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From: ODX@PSUVM.BITNET (Tim Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: C compilers
Message-ID: <89285.125647ODX@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 12 Oct 89 16:56:47 GMT
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A new C has formed that may be worth checking out.  TopSpeed C, by Jensen &
Partners International is supposedly 100% ANSI-proposed standard, has a
superset of MSC and TC libraries (including BGI and Borland text windows as
well as Microsoft graphics).  Rumor has it that the highly optimizing
compiler produces code as good as a competent assembler programmer would
produce.  Provides a seamless interface and similar environment to TopSpeed
Modula-2 and TopSpeed Assembler, as well as source-level debugger.  Also
TopSpeed C++ and TopSpeed Ada are slated with similar claims (for 1990-1).

QUESTION:  Has anyone seen this product yet?  Are the claims and rumors true?
They are believable, since JPI produced a *great* M2 compiler (IMHO).

Just trying to keep the discussion going.  (I have nothing to do with JPI
except that I use their M2 compiler).

-Tim Larson
odx@psuvm.bitnet