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From: johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lindwall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: ST has Borland Turbo C, why not Amiga?
Keywords: Turbo C compiler
Message-ID: <254@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 1 Feb 90 02:51:18 GMT
Organization: NCR Corporation - Distributed Systems Lab
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A short time ago while perusing the comp.sys.atari.st newsgroup I noticed
multiple references to Turbo C.  Curious, I posted to that group asking if
they were referring to an ST version of Turbo C (from Borland).  I was
amazed to learn that it was the Borland product!  I still have issue #1 of
Amiga World in which you can find an ad for Amiga Turbo Pascal (which never 
shipped).  It's interesting to find them making a product for the ST, and I'm
sure many out there would like to see Borland compilers for the Amiga.
anyone feeling strongly about this may wish to send a letter to the president
of Borland.  Here is an address (from a posting - I'm not sure it's correct
though it may be).
         Mr. Philippe Kahn
         Borland International, Inc.
         P.O. Box
         Scotts Valley, CA 95066-0001
         U.S.A.

The ST Turbo C is not sold in the US strangely enough and I gather the
language used in the program/docs is not english.  Weird, huh?  For anyone
interested in details here is some info from another posting on
comp.sys.atari.st:

>
>The original posting asks "Is the ST version of Turbo C for real?"
>
>Yes, it's for real; it's from Borland.  It's not sold by Borland in the
>US, however, for reasons I can't fathom.  The package is a solid one,
>and its code generation beats any 68000 compiler available for the ST,
>with the possible exception of GCC (maybe a slight advantage there). It
>has some drawbacks:  it is _very_ strict - ANSI compliant to a fault. 
>Because of some implementation details, it is difficult to get some
>kinds of "older" style C code to compile without modification.  The
>libraries are complete, and the online help facility is wonderfully
>hypertextish. (is that a word? :)
>
>The assembler that comes with the package, although it has some minor
>problems in 68030 code generation, is also very good.  Supports
>motorola syntax, with macros, include files, and other goodies.
>And, like the compiler, it's incredibly fast.
>
>A new TC version with a source level debugger is being worked on too...
>I have no idea when they'll have it ready, tho.
>
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John Lindwall                     |   "Not my employer opinions; mine"
johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM     |   a man, a plan, a beer, reeban alpa nama
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