Ghenis.pasa@XEROX.ARPA (10/23/85)
The following message I sent apparently got lost by the mailer so I am resending it. Please note that I have since received MIX-C and sent a preliminary review to this group. Again, my personal feeling from what I have had a chance to check out is that MIX-C is the best deal in low-price C compilers, being fully K&R compatible. ----- Forwarded message # 1: Think twice about getting BDS C: it may compile very fast, but it is non-standard enough to make porting a pain. If you have no intention of ever recompiling your code on another system that's fine, otherwise... More standard low price compilers for CP/M are C/80 with Mathpak (produces very efficient code) and Q/C (comes with source code!) among others. MIX C was been prematurely anounced at $39.95 three months ago and they aren't shipping yet (hmm...). Check the C compiler reviews in Dr. Dobbs, Byte and Computer Language for some very complete info. ----- End of forwarded messages