Date   : Thu, 03 Nov 1988 08:26:18 PST
From   : secrist%msdsws.DEC@decwrl.dec.com (Richard Secrist, Digital Equip. Corp. USA)
Subject: C/80

       If you want to hack C for yourself under CP/M-80 C/80 is a good
       price/performance product for small floppy-based systems.
       It was reasonably K & R and had all the normal functions and
       was easy to port stuff into.  If you're a general hacker and
       program in a number of languages you should be pleased.  If
       you are an esoteric C hacker doing big-time C you should get out
       the bucks and spring for Aztec C.  C/80 didn't compile through
       a bunch of inordinate steps or take significantly longer than
       it should for what it was doing, so I was happy enough with it
       in the limited environments I was playing in.  I used Whitesmith's
       C for CP/M at the same shop and while it was robust I thought
       I'd go nuts going through all of the compiling and linking steps,
       waiting and waiting... it wasn't worth it for light-duty home
       hackery and cost too much.  Aztec C was best if you're going to
       spend significant amounts of time in C.  C/80 is fine for
       recreational C programming.

       rcs