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From: paul@math.ucla.edu (Paul Chang)
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Subject: Better Compilers for Instructional Purposes?
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Date: 11 Jan 89 03:45:24 GMT
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We have been using Sun-3/280s as interactive machines for our
undergraduate programming classes and we are generally pleased with the
hardware setup.  However, our instructors like to know if there are better
C and Fortran compilers available for instructional purposes?  The
system's C and f77 are not very helpful in their diagnostic messages and
sometimes confuse our users who are learning the languages for the first
time.  

If you have better experiences with other commercially available compilers
for Suns, please send me a note.  I will post a summary if I get enough
responses.  Thanks much.

paul

paul@math.ucla.edu