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From: sam@ftp.COM (Shelli Meyers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: When will Microsoft give us a *REAL WORLD* C Compiler
Message-ID: <184@ftp.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 88 17:07:54 GMT
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In article <21992@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost) writes:
>
> Well, Microsoft C is on version 5.1.  This means a minimum of 6
> revisions of their compiler have gone out (1.0 - 5.0 major and now 5.1
> to fix a plethora of bugs in 5.0).  You'd think that after that many
> major revisions, most of the bugs would be gone, especially those
> which users have complained about repeatedly.

I hate to burst *your* bubble, but I have heard rumors (from some of
Microsoft's 5.1 beta sites) that 5.1 is still about as broken as 5.0.
This is unfortunate for developers who would *like* to "keep up with the
Jones'" as far as new industry-accepted compilers go, but how can you
support something you can't even trust to use in-house yourself?

Sad... c'est la vie.

Shelli Meyers
FTP Software, Inc.