Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!att!cbnews!cbnewsm!cbnewsl!moss!feg From: feg@moss.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke,2C-119,7239,ATTBL) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Just a minor new twist on free() Message-ID: <1990Oct30.162121.6417@cbnewsl.att.com> Date: 30 Oct 90 16:21:21 GMT References: <7365@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <335@bii.UUCP> <119@nazgul.UUCP> <1990Oct26.154315.26612@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: @cbnewsl.att.com Reply-To: feg@moss.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 20 In article <1990Oct26.154315.26612@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <119@nazgul.UUCP> bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes: >><... ( Mess - DOS doesn't count as a system (:-) ). >> >>If other systems are so superior, why aren't their programming environments >>up to the standards of the MS-DOS world? > >Because they don't have 10^10 mindless lemmings buying them and thus >underwriting development costs. >-- And so far as programming in C is your desire, you have a choice of working with a crippled OS or a crippled compiler. Besides which the crippled compiler probably is working on a pricey computer with an similarly pricey OS. Worse yet, even the busted compiler often costs more than the computer with the crippled OS! (;-)) Forrest Gehrke feg@moss.att.com very pricey