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- From: marc@cxr_rs6000.med.ge.com (Marc Wolfgram)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Orca bashing (was Re: Amrit, C/C++)
- Message-ID: <9211051503.AA07392@cxr_rs6000>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 15:03:12 GMT
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- James Brookes writes:
- >BTW, Mike Westerfield wrote both APW and Orca/C. So, the analogy doesn't
- >really hold water when you are comparing Orca/C and lcc.
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- The way I read this you are implying that Mike wrote both the ORCA and the
- APW C compilers... This is NOT true. Mike wrote ORCA/M, the shell and asm
- for the GS and a variant of that product is the APW shell/asm. Mike also
- wrote ORCA/C, however, APW C is actually a Megamax compiler.
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- Marc Wolfgram
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- There are two ways to write bug-free code and only the third one works.
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