alonso@cgl.ucsf.edu (Darwin Alonso%Dill) (07/20/88)
I haven't seen any compilers posted on pc binaries. Are they too big, or are there none that are public-domain/share-ware? Anyway I would like to get a fortran and/or C compiler (for an XT clone), preferably in ZOO format, if there are any out there. Also, thanks to those working on the instructions on downloading binaries. Darwin Alonso alonso@cgl.ucsf.edu
dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) (07/27/88)
In article <11051@cgl.ucsf.EDU> alonso@cgl.ucsf.edu (Darwin Alonso%Dill) writes: >I haven't seen any compilers posted on pc binaries. Are they >too big, or are there none that are public-domain/share-ware? The shareware/free software world has no good compilers for programming languages. I think one reason for this is that it takes a tremendous amount of effort to write a good language translator and to provide support (bug fixes mostly, also enhancements to track programming languages as they change), and this must be paid for. Fortunately the MS-DOS world has an abundance of reasonably- priced language translators. The main source of these is Borland (near-ANSI C, near-Microsoft BASIC, near-ISO Pascal, and a quasi-Prolog). Don't buy from Borland or from your local bookstore or computer store. Independent mail-order suppliers will give you steep discounts from the list price. There's a free C compiler, called the GNU C compiler, which currently runs only on large systems, and is never likely to run on any 8086-based system. There have also been occasional subsets of various languages such as Tiny-C and Tiny-Pascal. There have generally been quite inadequate for any realistic programming. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi