ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward) (10/15/84)
For those who are wondering about Softworks 'C', I offer the following:
There is no way possible to edit, compile, assemble and link a program
without going to the finder and copying a file from one disk to
another.
The compiler gives error messages by line number but there is no way,
short of counting from the top, of finding line numbers in a file.
I paid four hundred dollars and got a "pre-release" version. To get
the released version, you will have to pay extra.
Printf does not know anything about windows. It sticks the text on the
screen, like a "normal" computer, no matter what else is there.
I was not able to use "create" to create a file. This may be because
I gave up early and used the toolbox version. Great for portability.
You must use the Apple linker, which has no library look-up ability.
If you want to use a routine that is in a file, you get the whole file
in your program. The "hello world" program is huge.
There is no documentation telling what routines are in which files.
It is a version of Whitesmiths.
Other than that, it's great.
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Michael Ward, NCAR/SCD
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