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From: 840445m@aucs.uucp (Alan McKay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Lattice 5.04 Announcement
Message-ID: <1989Oct24.115542.1167@aucs.uucp>
Date: 24 Oct 89 11:55:42 GMT
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Reply-To: 840445m@aucs.UUCP (Alan McKay)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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In article <2054@xyzzy.UUCP> poirier@dg-rtp.dg.com (Charles Poirier) writes:
>
>What, aside from Lattice being available earlier for the Amiga,
>makes Lattice's format "normal" and Manx's format "custom"?
>Seems to me they are just "different".
>
>	Charles Poirier

The format that Lattice uses is the one that Commodore set forth as the
standard.  Kind of like IFF.  The vast majority of other development products
use this format which means that you can intermix modules compiled in 
different languages.  However, you could not mix Modula 2 code with Manx C.

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