Anybody ever use Aztec C for APPLEII?

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue Apr 27 16:19:50 2004

>
> > Aztec C on the Apple ][ is a sorry, lazy, flea-ridden dog.
>
> Any C implementation for that era (1979) of micros is a
> pretty good find, IMHO.

I remember running OS-9 C on my CoCo. It wasn't a bad language, actually,
but it had to load the compiler in about 3 sections from disk (the
preprocessor, section 1 and section 2 IIRC), and wrote all sorts of
temporary files between sections. I didn't have a hard disk, so it took a
long time to compile anything, loading each bit from floppies...

> Although I'd reccomend finding a C for the PC class, post
> 8086, (1985+) if what you want to learn is software.

If you want to learn C, install one of the free unices and run gcc. Oh,
and buy K&R -- you'll be glad you did. I couldn't understand any of the
'learn C in 2 weeks' type of books, I thoguht C was well beyond me. Then
I bought K&R and was writing simple programs the same afternoon. K&R is
expensiver per page I guess (it's a thin book), but it's full of
information, and it's logically set out.

-tony
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