Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!att!ihlpl!knudsen
From: knudsen@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: os9 and Unix
Summary: Better compilers
Message-ID: <7096@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Date: 7 Oct 88 15:57:26 GMT
References: <709@umbio.MIAMI.EDU> <1505@pur-phy>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <1505@pur-phy>, piner@pur-phy (Richard Piner) writes:

> buy. If they want a user system, UNIX comes with more tools. If
> they want a programmer's system OS9 comes with better tools, e.g.
> very good compilers.

I wouldn't presume to judge whose compilers are better, but
one thing I know from experience:  My $100 RadShack C compiler for
OS9 Level 1 or 2 on the Cocos gives out much better error
diagnostics than the big mainframe U**X jobs ever did.
(Just try putting an extra right brace in the middle of your
source and see which one gives something more than "syntax error.".)