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From: bjroehl@wateng.UUCP (Bernie Roehl)
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Subject: Re: DeSmet C
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Date: Thu, 3-May-84 10:11:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  3 10:11:33 1984
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<to the eater of lines. is this bug fixed yet????>

I would strongly disagree with the observation made about DeSmet C.
I have used it for a wide variety of different projects, and have
nothing but high praise.  It's fast (*much* faster than CI-86), produces
nice tight code and comes with a set of utilities that you'd pay a good
price for anywhere else.
A full-screen editor (which is my editor of choice), a very quick assembler,
a handy dump utility, and bunches of other goodies for $100.  I've used
CI-86 and Lattice, and will stick with DeSmet.
Their latest release (2.3, which I ordered yesterday) includes a full-screen
symbolic debugger as well as everything else.  (This version is slightly more
expensive, but not much).
I have had no problem compiling large functions; some have run to three pages
or more, and compile clean.  (A good C programmer doesn't *write* functions
much longer than that!).
In short, I am extremely pleased with the DeSmet package.  I'll dig up their
address and include it in a later posting.
					--Bernie Roehl
P.S.
Did I mention they give you updates for just $20?  I'd like to see some of
the other C vendors beat that!  Some of them charge more for their updates
than the C-Ware people charge for the DeSmet compiler!


-- 
        -Bernie Roehl    (University of Waterloo)