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From: bub@rlgvax.UUCP ( Mongo Mauler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: Which C compiler is better?.
Message-ID: <1008@rlgvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Jun-86 11:22:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1008
Posted: Wed Jun  4 11:22:57 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Jun-86 06:28:42 EDT
References: <507@noscvax.UUCP>
Organization: Computer Consoles Inc., Reston, Va.
Lines: 21
Keywords: C, abacus, proline
Summary: ABACUS C -  yaarrgghhhh!!!!!!!!

In article <507@noscvax.UUCP>, rupp@noscvax.UUCP (William L. Rupp) writes:
> Can anyone offer wisdom regarding the relative merits of Abacus and
> Proline C compilers for the C-128?  I myself have the C-Power (Proline)
> for my C-64 and am happy with it (although I have not used it nearly
> as much as I would like to, and therefore probably am not as familiar
> with it as some of you).  I have heard mostly comments favoring C-Power.
> 
> Any opinions (informed ones of course) would be appreciated.
> 
> Bill
> Computer Sciences Corp.

I've got the Abacus compiler.  Works fine and does all it's supposed to,
but Jeez!  You're talkin' 10 minutes to get a simple one or two line
routine to a state that's executable.  God forbid that you made a syntax
error or something, 'cause you have to start the whole process all over
again.

I guess I'm just too spoiled by working on a 'real' computer with
cc and lint, but I think that the 70 smackers I dished out for that
Abacus thing could have been spent for something else MUCH better.