Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!mucs!kevin
From: kevin@ux.cs.man.ac.uk (Kevin Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: PD Compiler (and other s/w) recommendations wanted
Message-ID: <5606@ux.cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Feb 89 16:53:15 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK
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I'm new to the amiga and am in the process of looking for some ``essentials
of life''. Before going out and paying large amounts of money for
commercial products, I thought I'd try and find out what's in the public
domain.

So, can anyone point me in the direction of a seriously usable PD compiler
for a useful language (e.g. C, modula-2, pascal, ...). Any comments on the
equivalent commercial products would be welcome too.

As a guide to the kind of thing I've in mind, if I do pay commercial rates,
it'll probably be Lattice 5.0 that I'll go for (unless I can convince
myself that I can justify the extra for C++) although this is rather
expensive for what I'll probably get around to using it for.

Sorry if this is an ``old hat'' question to this group, but I've only
recently found the group or acquired an amiga 8^). If you prefer, mail your
reply and I'll post a summary if anyone's interested.

(I'd also be interested in views on disc copiers since I get very nervous
when I've paid \pounds 25 for a game and can't make a back-up copy just in
case something goes wrong. Sigh, it seems as if the only thing copy
protection achieves is to force ``normal users'' to buy extra software to
get around it - the pirates that are supposedly the problem already have
the software/ability to get around the protection. Any other strong
recommendations for the other basics like wordprocessors etc. would also be
happily received- anything that can prevent me buying rubbish when someone
has found something wonderful is always appreciated.)

Many thanks

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