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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Coding standards (was Re: Programmer productivity)
Message-ID: <1989Dec9.170051.2866@twwells.com>
Date: 9 Dec 89 17:00:51 GMT
References: <1989Dec5.152225.25770@twwells.com> <14836@well.UUCP> <1989Dec6.154103.2078@twwells.com> <9228@hoptoad.uucp>
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In article <9228@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
: In article <1989Dec6.154103.2078@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T.
: William Wells) writes:
: >Care to name some specific systems where the linker could take
: >apart an object file, and for which a reasonable C compiler
: >exists?
:
: MPW for the Apple Macintosh.  I just elaborately verified that the
: linker does this for a skeptical friend.  The C compiler is nearly a
: full ANSI C, and it certainly does include "statics".  I just did
: another test, and it even deletes unused "static" functions.  It's
: actually a pretty strong development system overall; I've been praising
: it on the net ever since I was one of the original beta testers.

When I had to work on the Mac, my development environment
consisted of a cross compiler from a VAX and a downloader
originally written in *machine code* to be executed from BASIC!
(My first program was a shell with a download command. Surprised?)

There *was* no C compiler for the Mac then. I considered it a
major revolution to get Manx C, with its tiny shell and a native
compiler.

I'm glad that things are better now. :-)

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