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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!root44!praxis!tjh
- From: tjh@praxis.co.uk (Tim Huckvale)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: C compiler summary
- Summary: Summary of C compiler recommendations
- Keywords: A3000 C compiler wanted
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.111601.1200@praxis.co.uk>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 11:16:01 GMT
- Organization: Praxis, Bath, U.K.
- Lines: 66
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- Many thanks to all those who replied to my request for recommendations for
- a C compiler for my son on his A3000.
-
- He has written this summary. Having weighed up his desires against my
- budget, he's come to a possibly surprising conclusion.
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-
- Beebug C
- --------
-
- Good-
- Cheap
- Runs on small machines
- Good for learning C / dabbling
-
- Bad-
- Bug-Ridden
- Not completely ANSI
- Not Supported any longer?
- Risc User concentrates on Desktop C
-
-
- Acorn C
- -------
-
- Good-
- Nice Debugger
- DDE
- Compiles ANSI or PCC style C
- 'Free' DDE Pascal
- Full-time development team
- Well used
- For serious use - academic / money-earning
- Risc User concentrates on Desktop C
-
- Bad-
- Expensive
- Needs 2mb+ memory / hard disk
-
-
- Overall
- -------
-
- Don't buy Beebug C
- Get a Hard Disk - 40Mb+
- Get the Programmers Reference Manuals
-
-
- Conclusion
- ----------
-
- We are now buying the HCCS Vision Digitiser and a 20Mb IDE HD [assuming
- Watford Electronics ever answer their phone - TJH].
-
- I intend to buy Acorn C in a couple of years when I want to write 'serious'
- desktop apps.
-
- --
- Magnus Huckvale
-
- --
- Tim H
- "You've got to spread joy up to the maximum, bring gloom down to the
- minimum. Have faith, or pandemonium liable to walk upon the scene."
- Bing Crosby (and The Andrews Sisters).
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