Date   : Mon, 23 Feb 1981105:54:00-MST
From   : Lauren@UCLA-SECURITY (Lauren Weinstein)
Subject: BDS C and programming

Wait a sec, here.  What are we calling "systems programming"?  If
you are actually talking about programming an OS in C, I will agree
that NONE of the available C compilers for 8080/Z80 are reasonable.
But this is because the 8080/Z80 is not reasonable.

For ANY sort of applications programming though, including all sorts
of system utilities, I find BDS C more than adequate in all cases,
and extremely helpful.  This goes from editors to text processors to
disk copy utilities to bizarre realtime applications.  It's the cheapest
C compiler you can get with full structure ability and super-fast
compilation.

--Lauren--