| Microsoft has enhanced its version of C and they now call it Quick
C. It is supposed to be a nice development environment, I've haven't
had a chance to use it yet though.
Borland has a version called, as one would guess, Turbo C that works
under MS-DOS. I have used it and found it to be a good development
tool.
Hope this helps
Oliva
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Re .4:
Opps you're right - Quick C was added to MS C not vice versa, my
apologies. As to how good an answer it is to Borland's Turbo C,
I really couldn't say as when I was using Turbo C, Quick C had yet
to be released.
My point, however, was that there is an alternative to Ms C available.
Oliva
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| Manx Aztec C has done quite well in the benchmarks, although their
source debugger is of the old glass-teletype style (like VAX Debug in
line mode) and lacks watchpoints. Its big drawback is the pricetag
($500 for the version with the library sources, although my wife got
hers through a sub-license for $189). I've been told it is the closest
in many ways to Unix. It's also available on the Mac, Amiga, and Atari
(at a much lower price!) if you like the Motorola architecture better.
Let's C (from Mark Williams) has a nice symbolic debugger (csd)
but the code speed isn't production quality, and it doesn't have
that hard-to-describe solid feel of a professional tool. (There
may be a Let's C for the Mac. I don't recall.)
Turbo C has a generous library but no debugger whatsoever so you're
stuck with strategic printf's. (With 1.5, you even get reasonable
adapter-independent graphics for "free".) It's code speed is probably
quite similar to Let's C, although I've never benchmarked them. I've
read rumors either in the trade press or on a BBS that Borland is
working on a hot new debugger, but I don't remember where I read it...
We have all three, and all three seem to generate acceptable code.
We don't have Microsoft-C, but if we're serious about ever getting into
C++, we'll probably have to buy Microsoft-C or at least Codeview
sometime soon. (All the precompilers assume Microsoft-C or Lattice-C
and do debug using Codeview. This looks like a general trend.) I've
resisted so far because I hate having to pay a premium price to buy
software from the people who made the operating system. (Of course, I
don't see any problem with folks doing the same thing on VAXen. :-) )
Meanwhile, we've gone off and bought Smalltalk/V and an Ada compiler
for it, but that's the topic for another note...
Ralph
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