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- From: PHR00JG@TECHNION.BITNET ("Jacques J. Goldberg")
- Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
- Subject: Re: small C problem.
- Message-ID: <9211110804.AA07765@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 08:04:33 GMT
- References: <INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
- Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Organization: The Internet
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- X-Unparsable-Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 13:19:43 IST
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- You just found out that real numbers are not handled by your compiler.
- So what about buying MIX-C once for all for 20$?
- I do not have any interest with MIX software, I just repeat from my experience,
- pay these 20$ and begin to ENJOY programming in C with your beloved computer,
- instead of limiting yourself with a compiler which IS a beautiful thing, for
- which Mr. Hendrix deserves our eternal gratitude, a C compiler written in C,
- with all the sources available, etc, etc, a superb laboratory/demonstration
- object, written for that purpose, but definitely not to write APPLICATIONS.
- If you read the articles in DDJ that came with the compiler, and/or Hendrix's
- ****excellent**** book on the compiler and library, you will see that the
- exclusion of the REAL type was deliberate.
- When you begin using MIX-C @ 20$ instead, you will also be amazed by the
- ratio of elapsed time needed to compile and build the .COM file, not only
- because of the intermediate assembly in Small C.
- I don't wish to be flamed as if I was denying the extraordinary qualities
- of Small C, including its null price (not quite, if you need the books and
- the Microsoft M-80 assembler, although I know that NOW there are free almost
- compatible assemblers, which PERHAPS correctly assemble ANY code generated
- by Small-C).
- I just warmly suggest to APPLICATIONS programmers to save a lot of headache
- for 20$ only.
- If MIX doesn't send me a new copy of the compiler which I anyway already have
- after such a post ....
-
- Jacques Goldberg - Technion, Haifa, Israel.
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