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From: sl195@cc.usu.edu (A banana is not a toy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: comp.sys.amiga
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.112555.44885@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 90 17:25:55 GMT
References: <44589@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <5066.275d1986@cc.curtin.edu.au>
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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?
> 
> 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.

I've been using SAS/C 5.10 for a while, and it works beautifully!!!   I know
that there is no compiler, either PD or commercial that is 100% bug-free.
I had one problem with it, but that was at 1:00 am :-)  The problem cleared
itself up with a good night's rest.  I've had no real problems with SAS'
compiler.  Code probe works great.  I can live with LSE.

The only real problems that I've had with most programs are either shoddy
programming (not in the case of SAS) or my running under AmigaDOS v1.2. 

BTW, what do you mean by debugging the compiler?  It sounds to me like these
people don't know how to use it. I'm not an expert, though I have no problems
if I read the manual.  If I get really desparate, I can ask people on the net.
(*****THANKS***** NET PEOPLE!)

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