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From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: C compilers for the //
Keywords: Manx
Message-ID: <924@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 14 Dec 89 02:33:29 GMT
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
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I've been following the discussion about C compilers for 8 bit Apples
and wanted to add my opinion. I own Orca/M and the Manx C65-c packages.
If I wanted to program for the Apple //, period, I'd stick with the Orca
assembler. However, I want to learn to program in C. I've been at it on 
and off now for a year or so and don't feel the least bit comfortable with
it yet. But, as my Unix/C instructor told me, if you want to be a C programmer
you have to program in C all of the time. In this respect the Manx package is
great. If you have a 10 mghz Rocketchip, a Unidisk 3.5 drive and at least a
meg of /ram (actually I could use another meg, but I haven't found a way
to add it to my //C yet) it's a great learning tool. So the real question,
at least IMHO is how badly do you want to learn to program in C. I'm new to
C but I think that a lot of the problems in the Manx package are actually
results of their efforts to be "true". I can solve problems much easier on
the Orca assembler but I can port the Manx programs to the local VAX and 
compile them. 

Bob Church
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