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From: kuan@iris.ucdavis.edu (Francisco Kuan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Aztec and Lattice. Do they suck?
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Date: 28 Nov 89 20:33:52 GMT
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Isn't it funny that the two best c-compilers on the Amiga are
considered to be mediocre (perhaps that's being generous) on IBM's?
When's the last time you heard anyone develop something on an IBM
using Lattice? 

Is there any chance of Turbo C being ported to Amigas? I own Aztec,
and I don't have too many complaints about it, except the SDB
won't let me look at string arrays correctly, and the customer
support sucks eggs, as someone pointed out. I also called a few weeks
ago asking about an update, and unfortuneately I have my originals
hidden so well I couldn't find my reg. #. They wouldn't take the
reg # of the SDB, which I did find. No, they wanted my zip code.
It makes me wonder what kind of software they use to keep track
of customers. Was that software by chance written in house
using Aztec C? From the sound of it, you'd think they hired
a chimpanzee to write that software in compiled Basic on a
Timex Sinclair, which they then ported to an IBM. It's hard
to have faith in a company that doesn't even know who its
customers are. The reason I chose Aztec in the first place was
I called Lattice, and the representative was so incompetent he
couldn't answer the simplest questions without looking it up
or hollering for his boss: "Uh, Joe, what version are we up to
on the Amiga?" 

You don't get much of a choice if you want a C-compiler on the
Amiga.

"Damned if you do, but it's still better than getting an IBM,
... I think." - Anyonymous Developer