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From: jlong@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Jeffrey K. Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ANSI C
Message-ID: <1379@blackbird.afit.af.mil>
Date: 8 Oct 89 22:53:34 GMT
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Reply-To: jlong@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Jeffrey K. Long)
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I have Prospero-C and it is "...a complete implemention of the proposed
 ANSI standard for C for use on the Atari-ST range of computers"
                    (quoted from the back of the box it came in)

It is a very complete package, comes with a debuger and a nice gem based
shell to work from.  I used it to port some IBM stuff written for
Turbo-C V2.0 (Bibtex V0.99c) and the port was almost trivial!!
It has excellent documentation (almost 1000 pages in 4 separate spiral
  notebooks) and is very robust, I haven't had a single crash from the
shell yet!  The only real drawback with it is that it isn't exactly a speed
demon!!  But it runs fine on my 1meg machine and hard drive
    I recommend it to anyone with only 1meg and who wants a 100% ANSI-C
     compliant compiler :-)

No, I don't work for them (see signature block :-))

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|   Jeff Long              jlong@afit-af.mil  (ARPA net)                |
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|   humble (and getting humbler by the day) graduate student;           |
|   The Air Force Institute of Technology  (what a great way of life??) |
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