Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!pa.dec.com!bacchus!mwm From: mwm@raven.relay.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Lattice vs. Aztec C what of it? Message-ID: Date: 12 Dec 90 22:02:45 GMT References: <52153@bsu-ucs.uucp> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: 00jeeaton@bsu-ucs.uucp's message of 11 Dec 90 21:53:03 GMT In article <52153@bsu-ucs.uucp> 00jeeaton@bsu-ucs.uucp (MIGHTY MERLIN) writes: Friends.. I am interested in programming in C. I know a little bit about it. I'm fluent with Pascal. My question for anyone out there who knows is this: Rather than spending money on one of those, I recommend you find someone local with the Fish disks, and get one of the three or 4 freely distributable C compiles. I haven't used any of them, but know of people who've used them all. From what I've heard, DICE is the best, and has the advantage that you can get a "complete" distribution that includes the Amiga-specific includes by registering it. Note: this is suitable for unix-like programming on the Amiga. You'll need the include files that are licensed by CBM in order to do amiga-specific things. But for just fooling with C, what's in the packages should get you started. BTW, I use Lattice. Excellent product, with excellent support. The latter is the cricital issue.