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From: 840445m@aucs.uucp (Alan McKay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Aztec and Lattice. Do they suck?
Message-ID: <1989Dec6.203947.2366@aucs.uucp>
Date: 6 Dec 89 20:39:47 GMT
References: <6060@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <13910005@hpfelg.HP.COM> <4017@vax1.tcd.ie>
Reply-To: 840445m@aucs.UUCP (Alan McKay)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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In article <4017@vax1.tcd.ie> rwallace@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
>In article <13910005@hpfelg.HP.COM>, koren@hpfelg.HP.COM (Steve Koren) writes:
>> 
>>> Is there any chance of Turbo C being ported to Amigas? I own Aztec,
>> 
>> I consider Lattice to be far superior to Turbo C.  In fact, both of
I agree
>
>As far as I'm concerned, Turbo C is VASTLY superior to Aztec or Lattice. Of
...
>having to have SIX different versions of the libraries for the 6 different
>memory models! Or not being able to support 32-bit ints even as an option! And
>of course a couple of Intuition windows make Turbo C's integrated environment
>look sick.) and MSDOS that overall the Amiga with Aztec or Lattice is a better
>development environment than a PC clone with Turbo C.

You seem to contradict yourself here.  It is superior but not as good.  I think
the integrated environment and speed of compile of Turbo make it very, very
attractive on the surface, but if you look inside it is not as good.
>
>As far as I know there is no chance whatsoever of Turbo C being ported, Borland
>do only MS-DOS stuff. We'll just have to wait for Aztec and Lattice to evolve
>to that standard.
>
Actually, they also do MacIntosh as well, so I am optimistic that they will
wake up some day and do the port.

>"To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem"
>Russell Wallace, Trinity College, Dublin
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