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From: kenneth@ukecc.UUCP (Kenneth Herron)
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Subject: Re: What is the BEST C (or Pascal) for the 64?
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Date: Wed, 22-Oct-86 01:48:41 EDT
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Scott,

DON'T GET OXFORD PASCAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Ahem) Good 'ol oxford ties into the basic rom for virtually everything
it does, meaning it's no faster than basic...add to that bugs, bugs, and
more bugs, a 2.5 minute load time (which crashes if any 'fast-load'
system is in use), and the standard dorky pascal i/o (try doing disk
drive commands which require writing, then reading, the command channel)
and you get a compiler that will make that ol' basic rom look pretty good...

Ken the H