Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!aglew From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Datalight faster than 4.2, why? Message-ID: <2600051@ccvaxa> Date: Thu, 15-May-86 02:06:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.2600051 Posted: Thu May 15 02:06:00 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 25-May-86 14:17:25 EDT References: <989@dataioDataio.UUCP> Lines: 14 Nf-ID: #R:dataioDataio.UUCP:989:ccvaxa:2600051:000:592 Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!aglew May 15 01:06:00 1986 I also noticed that C compilers on PCs are frequently better than UNIX issue. Little things like printing a bit of context with your errors, like: cahr stuff; Line EEE: ^ ^ Illegal declaration or obsolete initialization instead of telling you `invalid initialization on line 563'. Coming back to minicomputers is like going back to the Stone Age - big, fast, powerful monsters, but not quite as intelligent as their smaller successors. Andy "Krazy" Glew. Gould CSD-Urbana. USEnet: ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!aglew 1101 E. University, Urbana, IL 61801 ARPAnet: aglew@gswd-vms