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From: btb@ncoast.UUCP (Brad Banko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Ace C status and info
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Date: Fri, 1-May-87 13:20:33 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  1 13:20:33 1987
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the real C that I mentioned recently was an allusion to some work that
steve kennedy has been doing with the dbc sources to extend them.
i don't know what he plans to do with it when he gets it going, but he
has an Atari simulator running on a Vax which has given him plenty of
productivity to extend dbc... his problems, the last i talked to him,
involved shrinking this improved C to fit in the Atari...

let's get on him to try to convince him to bring this out pd or sell it!
he is adding structures and some other neat stuff.

the difference between what he has done and what Ralph Walden has done
is that in the course of developing ACE C and Lightspeed C, Ralph added some
nonstandard features to the C such as comments that cannot cross line
boundaries and some other stuff.  (I have also talked to ralph) don't get
me wrong, ralph has done a very good job with several programs
(including ACE C) for the Atari's, but isn't it time that we stand up and
demand a standard (for once) language?  i think so.

steve is smk on the net... i don't know his address at this moment.

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			Brad Banko
			Cleveland, Ohio	...!decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!btb

"The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man."
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