Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!umd5!purdue!decwrl!decvax!tektronix!reed!psu-cs!alexc From: alexc@psu-cs.UUCP (World Class Hacker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: When will Microsoft give us a *REAL WORLD* C Compiler Message-ID: <633@psu-cs.UUCP> Date: 22 Apr 88 10:29:42 GMT References: <11622@duke.cs.duke.edu> Reply-To: alexc@psu-cs.UUCP Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Portland State University; Portland OR Lines: 31 Distribution:net Hi there, As you may have already know that Microsoft have tried to build a good C-compiler for the IBM-PC ( Brain damaged ! ) env. REAL LIFE C PROGRAMMER DO NOT DO MUCH C PROCOMMING ON PC's THEY USE UNIX OR U**N INSTEAD. Of course, if your client only have access to PCs then you just have to find a way to correct the problem. * FRAME ON * Let see you write a C compiler for the IBM-PC running MS-DOS WITHOUT ANY MISTAKES ( 100% ERROR FREE ) on the first try ! ( NO ERRORS WHEN YOU TRY TO COMPILE THE SOURCE CODE FOR THAT COMPILIER then you couse say ......... !! * FRAME OFF * Anyway, you could send e-mail to Microsoft and see you could get an answer. Their e-mail path from our site is : tektronix!uw-beaver!microsof Sincerely, __ _ / ) // /--/ // _ _., / (_ /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------------