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From: cks@radio.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Free C Compiler?  Almost!
Message-ID: <1044@radio.toronto.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 88 08:32:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: radio.1044
Posted: Tue Mar 22 03:32:24 1988
References: <2687@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: cks@radio.UUCP (Chris Siebenmann)
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In article <2687@crash.cts.com> haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) writes:
...
>        To be honest, PD compilers make me nervous.  There OK for play, but
>not for serious work.  If I run into a serious bug, I don't wan't to hear
>"sorry, I'm doing spacial relations work for General Dynamics right now,
>maybe in a few months...".

 Serious PD compilers with source scare me far less than commercial
compilers. When I'm doing serious work, I don't want to be at the
mercy of anyone for bugfixes; I want to be able to fix/patch it
myself. I feel the same way about libraries and library sources; I've
fixed too many problems in various people's libraries to really trust
something I don't have source for (which is one reason I bought the
commercial Aztec C package, and not the developer's).

[By 'serious' I mean a compiler that is H&S compliant and able to
compile, say, MG.]
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