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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Best C Compiler?
Message-ID: <1312@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 00:12:12 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 26 00:12:12 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 05:34:16 EDT
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In article <811@megamax.UUCP>, peter@megamax.UUCP (Peter Taliancich) writes:
> >I just bought an ST, and I'm wondering which is the best C compiler for
> >the machine.  I've noticed many people in this group seem to use the Mark 
> >Williams C compiler.  Is this considered the best?
> >					Scott Morrison
> >					morrison@Berkeley.EDU.ARPA
> 
> That one is easy.  
> 
> Use Megamax C!
> peter@megamax

Nothing like a vested interested!   Heh. Heh.

Actually I have both Megamax and Mark Williams Cs.  Both are good products.  
I actually prefer Megamax (YES...i have MWC 2.0) for speed and also the 
package is more complete package in as far as GEM is concerned.  Megamax 
bundles a Resource Editor which is pretty good.  The Megamax Resource 
Editor unlike the Atari Resource Construction Set allows you to edit 
icons (Atari includes an Icon Editor which is seperate from RCP).  
I also (surprisingly) don't mind their (megamax) mouse-based Editor 
(tho' it has some problems).  One negative that will be remedied shortly 
(How shortly??? Pete?) is a 32K segment limit.  Another negative is 
Megamax's graphical shell is somewhat limiting tho' you can use other 
shells with it.

MWC 2.0 contains a weak System V -ish shell.  MWC 2.0 provides alot of
calls which are compatible with Unix.  The MWC documentation is excellent
tho' i hate the arrangement (alphabetical).
MWC 2.0 has *alot* of good things going for it. The negative for MWC is
no Resource Construction Set.