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From: nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Turbo 'c' type interface for Amiga
Summary: Consider, if you will, Manx 5.0
Message-ID: <731@cord.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 89 19:17:52 GMT
References: <406@corpane.UUCP>
Reply-To: nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock)
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In article <406@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP writes:
>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'?
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I posted about this recently, but I'm pretty sure it got garbled on the way
out, so here is some of it again.  Apologies if you've seen this before.

Spoke to the Manx folks at AmiExpo.  Seems they're skipping 4.0 and 4.1 and
jumping right to 5.0 (maybe they just wanted to have a number as high as
Lattice, I don't know).  They are projecting July availability, and will be
sending out notification to all registered users around June.  No word on
upgrade pricing.

It sounds like it will be worth the wait.  Some highlights:

*  A "turbo" style compiler and environment.  Everything integrated and mousy,
   plus ARexx ports on everything so you can customize.  The turbo compiler
   will have compiler and assembler rolled into one, so it theoretically should
   be quick.
*  In addition, a standard multi-part compiler with a global optimizer, for 
   when you want to produce production-quality code.
*  Souped up SDB which handles multitasking correctly (hooray!!).
*  New make utilities.  VMAKE (?) for advanced users and a "Project Manager"
   for those who prefer point and click.
*  Fully certified ANSI compatible.

They said that the compiler is virtually done, and that they're working on the
environment stuff.  The compiler wars are escalating.

Oh yeah, the new package is called the "Aztec C Express", so you too can become
an ACE programmer.  Ooey.

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