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From: hclausen@adspdk.UUCP (Henrik Clausen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C compilers
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Date: 6 Dec 90 09:40:52 GMT
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In article <5066.275d1986@cc.curtin.edu.au>, Lynch_MJ@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:

> In article <44589@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, v117gv8r@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Thomas E Burnett) writes:
> > only 1 disk drive and 512K ram. 
> > 	Is there a PD version of C available. What do people think of 
> > commercial C packages that are available?

   Check out Dice on Fish 359 - is supposed to be compact, fast and
efficient.

> People that I know have used Lattice C (a commercial C-Compiler) have spent
> more time trying to debug the compiler than they have programming!!! 
> So don't go near Lattice-C.

   You must've heard about V3.00 or something. I use 5.05 currently, and
though I do hit compiler bugs at time, it's a real decent package.

   This objection to Lattice is completely unjustified.

                                              Have a nice day      -Henrik


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