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- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Path: sparky!uunet!rde!ksmith!keith
- From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
- Subject: Re: Why no ANSI C compiler?
- Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 04:36:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.043641.8338@ksmith.uucp>
- References: <BzIpwt.IJD@well.sf.ca.us> <9212235958@drktowr.chi.il.us>
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- In article <9212235958@drktowr.chi.il.us> magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto) writes:
- >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.
- >
-
- Okay, GCC, SCO (MSC 5.0), and the AT&T compiler will compile most all of
- my code. Incompatabilities (if any) are generally in the header files.
- As for ANSI, *PLEASE* yes. K&R is fine, but with the proliferation of
- ANSI code with prototypes it can be a paint going down.
-
- [c++ stuff]
-
- >But who would pay >$200 for a compiler on a $99 OS? The point is this:
-
- Well, folks have been paying Microsoft *WELL* over $200 for Messy-DOS
- implementations of languages like 'C', COBOL, BASIC, ad nauseum.
-
- >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.
-
- See, here's where your making a mistake. DEVELOPERS spend a few hundred
- on the compiler so that they can write inexpensive solid apps for the
- inexpensive Operating Sytems the hobbiest/homework folks have.
-
- >
- >Maybe your market research knows something I don't. I wish ya luck with
- >it, but I'm not so sure it will fly.
-
- Someone SERIOUS about development of applications will not quibble over
- $200, on the otherhand, joe hobbiest gets a *FREE* simple compiler with
- the OS to begin with. There are always hobbiests who also like to have
- Top notch tools to work with.
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