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From: ardvar!krs@stag.UUCP (Kent Schumacher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Turbo C
Message-ID: <1989Oct19.100825.21264@stag.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 89 10:08:25 GMT
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[robert@duttnph.tudelft.nl (Robert de Vries) writes...]
> [...stuff deleted]
> At this moment version 1.1 is released with support for the f68881 floating
> point coprocessor. In december they release a sourcecode level debugger.
> [...stuff deleted...] With assembler (the developers version) it costs 340 DM
> ($ 160)
> 
> I hope this gives a little more attention to this compiler, which deserves it
> completely.
> 
>       Robert.

Could someone please go into some detail about the programming environment
that Turbo C offers.  Does it have a built in editor, or are you allowed
to substitute your own (without an unacceptable loss of features).  Is
it a CLI environment (like MWC) or a GUI.  If it has a build in editor,
is it gem based, does it allow marking blocks with the mouse (like Laser C),
does it allow multiple windows, macros, ...?

For whatever reason, it doesn't look like we are going to get this program
distributed in the USA, and hence I'm not going to be able to base my
decision to purchase it on magazine reviews or store demo's.  

(Oh, yeah - any comment on the documentation and 'ANSI-ness' of the compiler
would be appreciated).

Thanks 


  - Kent Schumacher                  /* "A member of STdNET-         */
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