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- From: begley@l14h13.jsc.nasa.gov
- Subject: New Mac C Compiler?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.143606.16677@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Keywords: Compiler, C, Mainstay
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- Organization: Lockheed Engineering and Sciences
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:36:06 GMT
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- I just received the winter issue of Mainstay's advertisement
- magazine, "Face to Face". It announces a new (?) C compiler called
- VIP-C. It is said to be an extention of their Visual Interactive
- Programming environment introduced in 1986. VIP-C is due to be
- debuted in the first quarter of 1993.
- The one screen display in the ad shows a split window with the
- code on the right half, a flowchart of the code with an arrow indicating
- where your cursor is in the flowchart, and the while and if branching
- words highlighted in the code. The ad says that they have simplified
- the complexity of the toolbox calls by combining the most common calls
- into 500 VIP-C functions which are available with a mouse click. THe
- VIP-C functions and the toolbox calls are also stored in customizable
- palettes. The run-time module creates independent double-clickable
- applications.
- As I JUST bought THink C last month, I am unlikely to give this a
- try for a long time, but I wondered if anyone has had access to a
- pre-release version and might offer a review/comparison with Think C
- and MPW.
-