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From: huang@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Howard Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What C compiler for the MAC
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Date: 22 Jan 90 02:23:15 GMT
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>What's a good C compiler for the MAC.  My past experience is with
>MS-DOS and Unix.  I the near future I'll be responsible for
>producing MAC applications.  I've started reading Inside the MAC;
>any other suggestions?
>
>Steven Wallace
>ssw@lavanix.bacs.indiana.edu
>ssw@cica.cica.indiana.edu

I've used THINK C for a while and it's really good.  It's fast (at least on
a Mac II with hard drive; on a Plus with two floppies, well...), has a source
level debugger, supports Toolbox calls, comes with sample code, etc.  The
new version, C 4.0, also includes object oriented programming (not exactly
C++) and many large libraries of Mac objects.  Version 4.0 is also ANSI-C
compatible.  It's a great system, and since it's very popular you can find
lots of support for it.

There's also Apple's Mac Programmer's Workshop version of C which I haven't
played with, but it's also popular.  I guess those are the two biggest C
compilers.

Good luck.


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