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From: bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan)
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Subject: Re: Looking for a good C compiler
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Date: Fri, 8-Aug-86 11:44:59 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  8 11:44:59 1986
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In article <76@winfree.UUCP> bdale@winfree.UUCP (Bdale Garbee) writes:
><2776@brl-smoke.ARPA> GA.OLS%ISUMVS.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA (Rob Olson) writes:
>>I am looking into learning C and I wondered if anyone would have
>>any suggestions on what compilers are worthwhile. [...]
>>I have been looking into a compiler from MIX corp. and Dr Dobb's
>>small Compiler.  If anyone has any comments about these, I'd love to
>>hear them!
>We used the MIX compiler for the PC in a consulting job a while back, and were
>not very happy with it. [...]

I have heard that MIX C is slow, and has a *huge* run-time package.

I've been using BDS C, which works pretty well, but the i/o is non-standard.
It has a few other shortcomings, some of which have been quite irritating,
but all-in-all, it works.

I've a friend who's been using Ecosoft C (for Z80), and rates it quite highly.
It's not cheap, but it's apparently pretty good.