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From: chasm@killer.UUCP (Charles Marslett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: When will Microsoft give us a *REAL WORLD* C Compiler
Message-ID: <3940@killer.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 88 06:12:27 GMT
References: <11622@duke.cs.duke.edu> <633@psu-cs.UUCP> <21992@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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Summary: Lets speak about what we know of . . .

In article <21992@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, madd@bu-cs.UUCP writes:
> 
> |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 ......... !!
> 
> 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.

Actually, (for reasons not particularly interesting) Microsoft has only
released 4 (or 6 if you count the two Windows/OS2 releases) and the numbers
started with 3.0.  Unfortunately, I think 3.0 was a bug free as 4.0, 5.0
and 5.1.  Sigh . . .

> jim frost
> madd@bu-it.bu.edu


Charles Marslett
chasm@killer.UUCP