19 Jun
1999
19 Jun
'99
5:53 a.m.
On Jun 18, 20:22, Allison J Parent wrote:
<But does freeware/shareware count? The original
point was that the
<manufacturers don't provide their tools for free as part of the OS; of
<course you can add on any amount of 3rd party free software to virtually
<any OS.
However the shareware/freeware counting part I agree
it's questionable
but often there are better out there than from the OS oem.
Hmm... sometimes. The Sun C compiler was dropped because it wasn't up to
scratch; gcc outperformed it easily. However, the reverse is true for
SGI's C compiler for IRIX, which easily outperforms gcc, and for which
there are a whole range of development options.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York