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From: YZKCU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Yaakov Kayman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: $50 Power C -- any good?
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Date: 1 Aug 88 13:25:48 GMT
Organization: The City University of New York - New York, NY
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    In the August issue of Computer Shopper magazine (p. 271),
I saw an ad for Power C for about $50. This price includes the compiler,
a debugger, a C library, source code for the library, and a manual. This
seems like an excellent price to me! The product is produced by Mix
Software. Are they fairly well-established? Are they good with technical
support, product updates, etc.?

    The execution times quoted in the ad for various benchmark tests
make it out to be a better performer than QuickC by Microsoft. Is this
true? Is it only a half-truth?

 The ad also claimed that Power C had more features than Borland's
 Turbo C? Is this true? Is it meaningful?

    Does anyone have good/bad EXPERIENCE using Power C? Does this seem
"too good to be true" or "too true to be good"?

    The review in Computer Shopper looks like it could have been
supplied by Mix Software's marketing people!! I doubt that the product
is "the greatest thing since sliced bread" (no, that WASN'T in the
review! :-) ). The review did, however, make it sound REALLY good.
Would anyone who has seen the review care to comment on its objectivity?

Thanks in advance.

YK
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