Date   : Mon, 30 Jul 1984 11:50:00 PDT
From   : Maron@LLL-MFE.ARPA
Subject: C features: BDS-C supporter

I tend to disagree that BDS-C is useful for only small projects. I'm not
sure what we want to define small as but I have written a large specialized
database program in BDS-C just fine. I did not need full floating point, in
fact what I did need I wrote directly in C because the full floating-point
hack that BDS-C does have was too much for me. The program was so big (tell
me how big is big, etc. joke) that I run it as two co-routine which cross
chain each other. There is the main routine with lots of routines and fairly
small in memory data and the sort (co)routine which is small but requires
(for efficiency) lots of in memory data. Whereas BDS-C is not a good as
other C's I've used (such as Lattice-C on the IBM-PC) I think it is great
for CP/M-80 for (1) price, (2) speed (3) features.

I have written a cross assembler (6502) in BDS-C, a terminal concentrator
interface, and various other utilities-all just fine. There are just a
few features I wish I could inspire Leor to put in but...
--Neil Maron