Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!hsdndev!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: info for the masses Message-ID: <14876@smoke.brl.mil> Date: 16 Jan 91 18:52:40 GMT References: Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 17 In article SHBOUM@MACALSTR.EDU writes: >... there is NO way that ANY 'C' compiler known for the IIGS is going to >handle the over 180,000 (thats right ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND) lines >of code that makes up Mathematica!!! That's absurd. I have an application of comparable size that can be compiled without much trouble on my IIGS. (Since it relies on some UNIX-specific features, the result is not fully usable on the IIGS, but I've been using ORCA/C as yet another compilation environment just to further check the code's portability.) The real problem that I would foresee is that ORCA/C still has too many bugs, and undoubtedly some of them would interfere with correct compilation of Mathematica. By the way, I just got a copy of "GS Numerics", which while far short of Mathematica may nonetheless be of use to some of the same clientele.