mdperry@boulder.colorado.edu (Marc D. Perry) (07/31/90)
I recently received a package of postcards from BYTE magazine; each card contains advertising info on a specific product and one of these sounds too good to be true. For 19.95 MIX software will send you the Power C compliler with features like: make, linker, libraries (10 bucks more), 600 page manual, ANSI std., IEEE floating point, automatic register variables, supports all graphics. They also show a small chart comparing Power C with Microsoft C and Borland's Turbo C, needless to say Power C is comparable or faster in every category. I have never bought a compiler before but am considering this one. I would be interested in learning if anyone else has used this program, particularly if you have also used a higher priced compiler and can compare the two. Obviously for 20 bucks you don't get a friendly environment with a built in editor and lots of toggling back and forth to test things and debug them etc. But do I really need those things if I am not a developer? Thanks, mdp Marc D. Perry (303) 492 8258 MCD Biology, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0347 internet: mdperry@boulder.colorado.edu
crmeyer@voodoo.ucsb.edu (08/01/90)
In article <24163@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, mdperry@boulder.colorado.edu (Marc D. Perry) writes... > >I recently received a package of postcards from BYTE magazine; each >card contains advertising info on a specific product and one of these >sounds too good to be true. For 19.95 MIX software will send you the >Power C compliler..... I purchased it and am quite happy with it. Independent benchmarks have shown Mix's benchmarks to be a bit optimistic. For $20.00 it offers a lot of nice features and it works well. I used it exclusivly for one of my C programming classes and it was fine. The Power C manual also includes a nice tutorial in C. If you want to spend a bit more (about $65 mail order) Borland's Turbo C is a nice enviroment to develope in. But Power C has been doing everything I need so I have not upgraded. Updates for Power C are also cheap ($5). +-----------------------------------+ | Charles R. Meyer | | | | Internet: crmeyer@voodoo.ucsb.edu | | Bitnet: crmeyer@voodoo | | HEPnet: voodoo::crmeyer | +-----------------------------------+