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From: sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu (fred sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: VAX/VMS C
Message-ID: <697@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Date: Mon, 14-Sep-87 16:26:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 14 16:26:54 1987
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In article <1069@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>In article <584@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>[VAX/VMS C] is the worst 'C' development environment
>
>Even a very careful reading of the VMS C documentation and release
>notes reveals absolutely no bugs or deficiencies in the VMS C
>environment.  If anything, as the manual makes clear, VMS C adds
>functionality to the original UNIX implementation.
>
>Also note that VMS C runtime environment automatically converts all
>command-line arguments to lowercase, thus greatly simplifying argument
>parsing.

Unfortunately, this feature seems to have been removed in the Ultrix port of
this compiler.  However, another, perhaps more valuable feature has been 
preserved:  the Ultrix port also produces VMS object files.

Fred Sullivan
Department of Mathematical Sciences
State University of New York at Binghamton
Binghamton, New York  13903
Email: sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu