Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!mailrus!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!abvax!iccgcc!lockemer From: lockemer@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: C for the 128 Message-ID: <1200.27070944@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> Date: 1 Oct 90 14:15:46 GMT References: <14581@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Lines: 48 In article <14581@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, piskacrj@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Robert J Piskac) writes: > In article , lcs@remus.rutgers.edu (Lyle C. Seplowitz) writes: >> >> There was a message posted here about Super C and Power C. >> Unfortunately, I haven't been able to locate Power C via mail order >> companies. If you know of where it can be located please post a >> message. >> >> I also, unfortunately, own Super C 128. I cannot recommend that >> program because it fails in many ways from being a real compiler. The >> other person was correct, Super C 128 cannot create code that runs >> indenpendent of the supplied shell (rendering it worthless). However, >> the C64 version can (a complete contradiction). >> > > Do you feel this is a fair statement? Commodore no longer sells the > C= 128. Why should Abacus put further money in a product that is > limited in sales. > > If you are that great programmer and critic that you think you > are, make the changes to the program yourself. Why is it worthless? > Don't you know how to run programs that you compiled in the shell? > Or is it that you don't like having to load the shell to run a > program. Abacus will let you copy the shell to other disk's. All > you have to do is set the autoexec file to load and run the program > and anyone can run the program. > > You have not proved your claim that Abucus Software is not worth > its money. Well, I posted the original message refered to above, and though I won't claim that Abucus Software is not worth its money, I will claim that Super C 128 is not. The fact that it is limited to the shell is very significant. Power C allows machine language subroutine calls, relative file accessing, and you can limit a program to a specific area in memory; three things I was unable to do with Super C 128 as a result of its limitation to the shell environment. Also, anyone who has a hard drive for the 128 will find that you cannot run Super C 128 on it since you must use its own specially formatted diskettes. Super C is fine if all you want is to do basic C programming and don't mind disk swapping. But for greater flexibility, Power C outshines Super C; no contest. Todd Lockemer > > Bob Piskac > piskacrj@mentor.cc.purdue.edu > > My mom won't let me have a .sig.