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From: farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Query for the Net
Message-ID: <21683@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 16 Nov 90 09:06:49 GMT
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dix@clinet.fi (Risto Kaivola) writes:
>There may be some compatibility problems with SAS (former
>Lattice) C, but there is no way Lattice could match the
>price/performance ratio offered by GCC. GCC comes free.

Your price/performance ratio will zoom to infinity the first time a bug
appears, or you need to do something which is just the other side of what
the compiler will allow.  Us Lattice/SAS folks, however, will just have
to pick up the phone...

GCC comes free.  Support comes expensive.
-- 
Mike Farren 				     farren@well.sf.ca.us