johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lindwall) (02/01/90)
A short time ago while perusing the comp.sys.atari.st newsgroup I noticed
multiple references to Turbo C. Curious, I posted to that group asking if
they were referring to an ST version of Turbo C (from Borland). I was
amazed to learn that it was the Borland product! I still have issue #1 of
Amiga World in which you can find an ad for Amiga Turbo Pascal (which never
shipped). It's interesting to find them making a product for the ST, and I'm
sure many out there would like to see Borland compilers for the Amiga.
anyone feeling strongly about this may wish to send a letter to the president
of Borland. Here is an address (from a posting - I'm not sure it's correct
though it may be).
Mr. Philippe Kahn
Borland International, Inc.
P.O. Box
Scotts Valley, CA 95066-0001
U.S.A.
The ST Turbo C is not sold in the US strangely enough and I gather the
language used in the program/docs is not english. Weird, huh? For anyone
interested in details here is some info from another posting on
comp.sys.atari.st:
>
>The original posting asks "Is the ST version of Turbo C for real?"
>
>Yes, it's for real; it's from Borland. It's not sold by Borland in the
>US, however, for reasons I can't fathom. The package is a solid one,
>and its code generation beats any 68000 compiler available for the ST,
>with the possible exception of GCC (maybe a slight advantage there). It
>has some drawbacks: it is _very_ strict - ANSI compliant to a fault.
>Because of some implementation details, it is difficult to get some
>kinds of "older" style C code to compile without modification. The
>libraries are complete, and the online help facility is wonderfully
>hypertextish. (is that a word? :)
>
>The assembler that comes with the package, although it has some minor
>problems in 68030 code generation, is also very good. Supports
>motorola syntax, with macros, include files, and other goodies.
>And, like the compiler, it's incredibly fast.
>
>A new TC version with a source level debugger is being worked on too...
>I have no idea when they'll have it ready, tho.
>
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----------------------------------+--------------------------------------------phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti) (02/02/90)
In article <254@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lindwall) writes: >A short time ago while perusing the comp.sys.atari.st newsgroup I noticed >multiple references to Turbo C. Curious, I posted to that group asking if >they were referring to an ST version of Turbo C (from Borland). I was >amazed to learn that it was the Borland product! Yes, it is a Borland product, but from what people in comp.sys.atari.st from Europe were saying, it wasn't actually written by Borland. Basically, a very small company did a _very_ good job of writing a clone of Turbo C, and Borland agreed to market it in Europe, where the ST is better received. - R'ykandar. -- | R'ykandar Korra'ti, Editor, LOW ORBIT | phoenix@ms.uky.edu | CIS 72406,370 | | Elfinkind, Unite! | phoenix@ukma.bitnet | PLink: Skywise | QLink: Bearclaw |