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From: nick@drutx.ATT.COM (SilvaN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: APW C
Message-ID: <4391@drutx.ATT.COM>
Date: Mon, 29-Jun-87 10:13:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: drutx.4391
Posted: Mon Jun 29 10:13:00 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Jun-87 06:25:43 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
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Keywords: //GS,C


Well, the APW C for the //GS is finally available from APDA. So far, I am
not impressed. It has a few limitations. First it is based on the Berkley
C so the proposed ANSI extensions are not there. Items such as ( x += 5;)
are not supported. The largest a program 'segment' can be is 64k. And
the documentation is the worst I have ever seen apple put out. Here we have
a toolbox interface and the documentation doesn't even talk about it, much
less give an example. The toolbox reference manuals are some help but they
only tell you what type of parameter the calls expect, not how to implement
it - it is up to the programmer to figure this out. I'm going to use it
only because that's all there is. But I'm damn dissappointed in Apple - again.

					Nick Silva
					AT&T Denver,CO.


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