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From: boyd@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: C Programming Languages...(Lattice)
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.172639.16562@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 11 Dec 90 17:26:39 GMT
References: <36774@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department
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In article <36774@cup.portal.com>, Yonderboy@cup.portal.com (Christopher Lee Russell) writes:
>I am very interested in programming in C on my new (used) Atari ST.  I am
>curious what PD C compilers might be available and if they are any good.  I
>got Lattice C version 3.03 with my Atari.. Is it possible to get an upgrade 
>to this?  (Is the company still supporting Atari).. Also what are considered
>the best C compilers that are not PD... Thanks ahead of time..
>                ....Yonderboy@cup.portal.com

I believe Lattice is still supported in Britain, and that they have come 
out with a recent upgrade that is quite nice.  I think it does not receive 
much attention in the US because of Mark Williams C and Laser C (both 
in-country products).  In the PD realm, the two biggies the I have heard
of are Sozobon and GCC.  GCC is superb, but you need at least 2 megs to 
compile large programs (4 would be a better idea).  It is worth it to 
ftp GCC just for the docs, lots of good info there.  Sozobon seems to be 
solid, but I believe there are some documented bugs.  Another compiler 
that I am impressed with is Prospero C.  This is another British product
that optionally supports the ANSI standard, and is rock solid.  The Prospero
company also produces both FORTRAN and Pascal, and one can cross-link the 
object files from any of the three with any of the three (does that make 
sense?).  All of the Prospero compilers have great documentation (>1000 pages),
and are well supported.  They also produce a source level debugger, and 
provide .ttp versions for use under a shell.  The programming environment is  
the same in all three compilers, which is nice if you have to switch between 
them.   

As always, this is IMHO.

 
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