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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: source code for Amiga is not much good?
Message-ID: <722@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Mon, 21-Apr-86 21:35:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 21 21:35:47 1986
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In article <1458@tekgvs.UUCP>, keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson) writes:
> (Note: of course I'd rather have the source, but with the Amiga and
> the various incompatible C compilers, the source may not be of much
> use anyway! :-) )

Great.  Let's all just do out programming and distribution in binary
and ignore this problem in the hope that it will go away.

Uh.....

How about leaning hard on the vendors by not buying the trash they
are shipping until they ship a compatible one that generates good,
bug-free code?  If there is no product on the market that does that,
you could sell your Amiga until someone produces one.  (I doubt Amiga
prices will go *up*, so it's better to sell it than to leave it idle.
You can always buy another one later, probably for cheaper.)

By compatible I mean:

	* Compatible with Unix C and libraries -- so you can take
	  the average public domain Unix C program and it will compile
	with no more trouble than it would take to compile it on a
	Unix system it wasn't written on.

	* Compatible with the C supplied by Amiga to developers --
	  so it matches the Amiga header files and libraries for access
	to Amiga-specific routines.

	* Has a vendor that's committed to fixing compatability problems
	  ASAP.

If people deferred buying (or sold) their Amigas, I can bet Commodore
would sit up and take notice and procure a decent compiler.
-- 
John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa