Aztec C (was: more eBay stuff)

On Thu, 31 May 2007 11:24:34 -0700 (PDT), Fred Cisin wrote: ... I AM NOT asking what "should be", I'm talking about comparing what compiler authors thought. That reminds me of Metaware High-C came bundled with the FarCrap DOS extender Autodesk forced us to use back then. When we opened the box, it contained some BornAgain propoganda along with a nice letter stateing that through the power of our lord ...... we are able to provide ...... from Metaware, well you get the idea. Upon installing it and feeding it some known working MickeySoft C source, I let loose with a string of curses at the string of cryptic error messages that seemed to move never ending up my screen. My partner in crime on the project came into my cave, about that point, and asked if I had Jesus C working yet. I about lost it, I later found out I was not alone, several of the other deveolpers got their updates on teh same day. Before our version of the story got around, I soon found other developers refered to the Metaware/Farlap combination Autodesk built their developer platform around as Jesus "C" often with more colorfull stories of their own. Oh to have lived in interesting times .... Later The other Bob