Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!noao!arizona!cjeffery From: cjeffery@arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Turbo 'c' type interface for Amiga Message-ID: <9599@megaron.arizona.edu> Date: 7 Mar 89 19:35:49 GMT References: <406@corpane.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson Lines: 17 From article <406@corpane.UUCP>, by sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks): > Why isn't there something like for the Amiga?... > 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'? It wouldn't be hard to write a compiler "environment" for Lattice or Aztec C in MicroEmacs macro language, for instance. But you still wouldn't get the compile time speeds of Turbo-C. And microemacs macro language is one of the slowest interpreters I have ever seen (despite its silly syntax its A LOT better than no extension language though!) . In real program development environments, the "shell" you refer to is the job of the editor. Turbo-C's editor is actually pretty weak. The Amiga C compilers are close to good enough; it is a real editor that I am wishing I had. -- | Clint Jeffery, University of Arizona Department of Computer Science | cjeffery@arizona.edu -or- {noao allegra}!arizona!cjeffery --