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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Turbo 'c' type interface for Amiga
Message-ID: <406@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 89 19:18:07 GMT
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Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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I just finished playing (working?) with Borland's Turbo C on my MSDOS 
machine at work. It is really nice! It has a window like interface 
with pull down menus, built in text editor, and it is FAST.

Why isn't there something like this for the Amiga? Talk about 
bass ackwards.. Here we have a generic msdos machine running a program
with windows and pull down menus, and over here we have an Amiga, 
with a built in window/menu interface and a command driven c compiler.

I wonder if it would be possible to use write a kind of 'shell' around
lattice or manx 'c' and an editor to make it work like turbo 'c'?

Not being much of a c programmer myself, it would doubtless be beyond
anything I could write. But I sure would like to see something like
Turbo on the Amiga. I mean, I usually struggle with Manx just trying
to get the durn options figured out, but with Turbo C it was easy and
even fun to compile a program. You edit, compile, correct and run your
program in a window that lets you scroll backwards and forward. You pull
down menus to pick compiler options, then tell it to go and bam! your
program is ready to run.

John
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