carlp@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Carl Paukstis) (01/21/88)
At the risk of starting a religious war - which C compiler should I buy?
I know this subject has probably been pounded to death in this group,
but I haven' been reading it. E-mail me if you prefer.
In the current Byte, Turbo C goes for $53, with MSC at around $189, and
here's MWC special-offered at $75 for "Let's C" and "csd" - with an
offer to buy you Turbo C if you don't like MW's product. And then some
"no-name" companies willing to give you their C AND the library source
for $29 or $39 - claimed to be a superset of Turbo.
What do I get with MSC that's worth ~$140 over Turbo? I've heard
Codeview is really slick, but is that all there is? And how useful is
Turbo's debugger? (Hmmm - do we call it TC?)
Anybody have any experience with MW's "Let's C"? I see a lot of
discussion around TC and MSC, but not too much MWC. And what about the
"other" brands?
Do any of these things have UNIX-type toolsets (e.g. make, grep, sed)?
I've seen some of these things in PD-ware (on GEnie) - are they OK?
Oh, for background: I will soon be getting an NEC APCIV Powermate I (AT
clone with 640K and 40mb). I make my living writing C (and database/4GL
stuff) under UNIX and/or ULTRIX, but I'm fairly new to MS-DOS PC's.
I've been programming for 10 years and writing C for 4. For my home
system, I plan to write mostly for recreation, utilities, maybe some
games, UNIX-like tools, etc. I probably will get Windows, if that makes
a difference.
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...uunet!iscuva!iscuvc!carlp |"God bless the USA and CornNuts (R)"hogan@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Emmett Hogan) (10/20/88)
I know that this has probably been hashed over several times
on the net, so please forgive one more time. I am looking into
buying a C compiler for my IBM-PC compatible, I have noticed several
names mentioned (i.e. Borland Turbo C, Microsoft C, and Zortech C++).
What I am looking for is opions, facts, or just plain ideas of what
is the best C compiler for micros. Any help would be greatly apreciated.
Please e-mail all responses, if there is enough interest, I will post a
summary, but we don't want to start a "Net-War" over which compiler is
the best.
Thank you in advance,
Emmett Hogan
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One extraordinary machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men,
but no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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Emmett Hogan hogan@xanth.cs.odu.edu
Old Dominion University [128.82.8.1]
Norfolk, Virginiagph@hpsemc.HP.COM (Paul Houtz ) (10/21/88)
/ hpsemc:comp.sys.ibm.pc / hogan@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Emmett Hogan) / 9:44 pm Oct 19, 1988 /
I know that this has probably been hashed over several times
on the net, so please forgive one more time. I am looking into
buying a C compiler for my IBM-PC compatible, I have noticed several
names mentioned (i.e. Borland Turbo C, Microsoft C, and Zortech C++).
What I am looking for is opions, facts, or just plain ideas of what
is the best C compiler for micros. Any help would be greatly apreciated.
Please e-mail all responses, if there is enough interest, I will post a
summary, but we don't want to start a "Net-War" over which compiler is
the best.
Thank you in advance,
Emmett Hogan
--
One extraordinary machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men,
but no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
=====================================================================
Emmett Hogan hogan@xanth.cs.odu.edu
Old Dominion University [128.82.8.1]
Norfolk, Virginia
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hogan@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Emmett Hogan) writes:
} What I am looking for is opions, facts, or just plain ideas of what
}is the best C compiler for micros. Any help would be greatly apreciated.
}Please e-mail all responses, if there is enough interest, I will post a
Please do post a summary, thank you!pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) (10/23/88)
In article <8090004@hpsemc.HP.COM> gph@hpsemc.HP.COM (Paul Houtz ) writes:
.../ hpsemc:comp.sys.ibm.pc / hogan@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Emmett Hogan) / 9:44 pm Oct 19, 1988 /
...
... I know that this has probably been hashed over several times
...on the net, so please forgive one more time. I am looking into
...buying a C compiler for my IBM-PC compatible, I have noticed several
...names mentioned (i.e. Borland Turbo C, Microsoft C, and Zortech C++).
...
... What I am looking for is opions, facts, or just plain ideas of what
...is the best C compiler for micros. Any help would be greatly apreciated.
...
There isn't any "best" compiler just as there isn't any "best"
automobile.
"I think that the Porsche xxx is the best car in the world."
"I don't. I can't fit my family in it."
Choose between the major players -- Microsoft and Borland -- or see who
has the feature-of-the-month.
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