Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!kth.se!cyklop.nada.kth.se!news From: d88-jwa@byse.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: New Apple Self-Help Tools Message-ID: Date: 20 Apr 91 19:28:34 GMT References: <1991Apr16.040127.5260@wlbr.imsd.contel.com> <51554@apple.Apple.COM> <23337@unix.SRI.COM> <51699@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@nada.kth.se (Mr News) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 28 In-reply-to: keith@Apple.COM's message of 19 Apr 91 07:27:44 GMT In article <51699@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes: marketplace that supports both: Symantec caters to the small (and even not-so-small) developer, and Apple provides the Mercedes of development systems -- simply because that's what a large number of our customers Well, I don't want a mercedes, I want a BMW. Mercedeses are big and clunky, and the Bavarian cars offer the same luxury but a _lot_ more joy of driving. The VW Golf G60 (i.e. Think C) is getting too small. The closest I've got is Gnu C under A/UX, but gdb dumps core over all the typedefs in a "mac" program. The native cc won't even support ANSI function declarations ( int main ( int argc , char * argv [ ] ) ; ) Maybe a third niche to carve out ? I have been, on and off, thinking about writing my own compiler (there is a decent ANSI C grammar on the net) but it't too much work and I have to live of something while doing it... 'nuff said. The less you understood the better :-) -- I remain: h+@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) (Yes, a brace !) "It's not entirely useless. It came in this great cardboard box !" - Calvin "Life should be more like TV. I think all women should wear tight clothes, and all men should carry powerful handguns" - Calvin, again