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From: secrist@msdsws.DEC.COM (Richard Secrist, Digital Equip. Corp. USA)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: C/80
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Date: 3 Nov 88 16:26:18 GMT
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	If you want to hack C for yourself under CP/M-80 C/80 is a good
	price/performance product for small floppy-based systems.
	It was reasonably K & R and had all the normal functions and
	was easy to port stuff into.  If you're a general hacker and
	program in a number of languages you should be pleased.  If
	you are an esoteric C hacker doing big-time C you should get out
	the bucks and spring for Aztec C.  C/80 didn't compile through
	a bunch of inordinate steps or take significantly longer than
	it should for what it was doing, so I was happy enough with it
	in the limited environments I was playing in.  I used Whitesmith's
	C for CP/M at the same shop and while it was robust I thought
	I'd go nuts going through all of the compiling and linking steps,
	waiting and waiting... it wasn't worth it for light-duty home
	hackery and cost too much.  Aztec C was best if you're going to
	spend significant amounts of time in C.  C/80 is fine for
	recreational C programming.

	rcs