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- From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Why no ANSI C compiler?
- Message-ID: <9212235958@drktowr.chi.il.us>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 08:44:58 GMT
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- Organization: DarkTower Software
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- Greg Comeau (comeau@csanta.attmail.com) wrote:
- : In article <9212135427@drktowr.chi.il.us> magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto) writes:
- : >There is one rule to programming you will learn very quickly:
- : >THERE ARE NO STANDARDS WHEN IT COMES TO C
- :
- : That is most certainly an overstatement.
-
- Is it? Show me two compilers that will interpret a reasonable length program
- in the same way. And if you're interfacing assembly language inline
- with the C, optimizations and legal register usage is a nightmare. But sticking
- just with the ANSI specs for the language, there still is a lot of stuff left
- up to the implementer.
-
- : >C++ is even worse.
- :
- : I'll disagree strongly. C++ has and will always continue to be more standard
- : than C.
-
- ???? 1) There is no ANSI standard for C++, and 2) most C++ compilers don't
- to the current Cfront spec. But, maybe you're right...I dunno.
-
- : It won't be cfront 3 compatible. Various aspect of it will be up to date
- : though. Of course there is Comeau C++ (literally cfront 3, currently being
- : 3.0.1'ized on our other platforms, and to be 3.0.2'ized 1Q93), but as I just
- : mentioned in my previous message, we have been awaiting resolution of a number
- : of problems from MWC for quite some number of months now.
-
- But who would pay >$200 for a compiler on a $99 OS? The point is this:
- most people have Coherent as a hobby/homework system. If they were willing
- to spend a couple of hundred on a second-company compiler, they would
- probably be willing to spend a grand on the OS.
-
- Maybe your market research knows something I don't. I wish ya luck with
- it, but I'm not so sure it will fly.
-
- -Louis
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