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From: leder@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Leder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Any reasons for using C on a PC (is it the fastest thing around?)?
Message-ID: <1083@ihlpm.ATT.COM>
Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 10:19:39 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 20 10:19:39 1987
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Summary: Fastest, no... Faster, yes

In article <3180@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, mic@lapis.berkeley.edu.UUCP writes:
> I ... how sensible ... program in C on a Unix system, ...
> That being said, ... a PC (IBM clone type ) why would he want
> to program in C at all?????  I must be missing something
> here!!!!

You just knew the world would repond to that line of statement.
Maybe your underlying question is: Should we just program in the language
that the operating system was written in?  I personally think not.

> Is C something used a lot ...just another fad language

For me, C is not a fad language.  I have used C on non-UNIX machines more
and for longer than I have on UNIX machines.  An interesting thing that
happened to me and I think quite a few others is that C provided all of
those things that we would have personally put into a language if we had
been the designer.  Obviously, one language is not right for everyone so
pick what you like.

In response to the speed issue, on MS-DOS C compilers exist that will
generate code that outruns everything else except machine language.
Some day, the compilers will generate code that we don't have to 
appologize for.


Bob Leder - just looking in