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From: ggray@wpi.wpi.edu (Gary P Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: My next personal computer will be a PC
Message-ID: <12699@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 5 May 90 13:11:35 GMT
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In article <12787@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <12658@wpi.wpi.edu> ggray@wpi.wpi.edu (Gary P Gray) writes:
>>power of a 25Mhz 32 bit processor means the difference between waiting a few
>>seconds or a few minutes and waiting hours.
>
>Maybe you should learn how to do arithmetic before making purchasing
>decisions.

No, let me guess, you're one of those people who think a 1Mhz 6502 can beat
the pants off of a 25Mhz 386, right?

>>>The question is though, what do you hope to gain by buying an IBM-type?
>>Programming capability.  Microsoft C, Turbo Pascal, C++... 
>
>While there isn't a commercial version of C++ yet available for the IIGS,
>there certainly are reasonable C and Pascal development environments.
>Further, there is extensive standard support for desktop programs.

I'd heard that the //gs C compilers didn't have all of the bugs worked out of
them (again, it's "what I've heard", not "what I know.")  The //gs is probably
quite a bit easier to program than the old // line because of this.  Are any
//gs C compilers ANSI?  I know there is supposed to be a LISP implementation
that runs on classic //'s (now that's something I would like to see :) but
what about prolog?  Actually, the language choice for //gs's probably isn't
that bad.  Are C compilers in an integerated enviornment?




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