Date   : Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:19:43 IST
From   : "Jacques J. Goldberg" <PHR00JG%TECHNION.bitnet@TAUNIVM.TAU.AC.IL>
Subject: Re: small C problem.

You just found out that real numbers are not handled by your compiler.
So what about buying MIX-C once for all for 20$?
I do not have any interest with MIX software, I just repeat from my experience,
pay these 20$ and begin to ENJOY programming in C with your beloved computer,
instead of limiting yourself with a compiler which IS a beautiful thing, for
which Mr. Hendrix deserves our eternal gratitude, a C compiler written in C,
with all the sources available, etc, etc, a superb laboratory/demonstration
object, written for that purpose, but definitely not to write APPLICATIONS.
If you read the articles in DDJ that came with the compiler, and/or Hendrix's
****excellent**** book on the compiler and library, you will see that the
exclusion of the REAL type was deliberate.
When you begin using MIX-C @ 20$ instead, you will also be amazed by the
ratio of elapsed time needed to compile and build the .COM file, not only
because of the intermediate assembly in Small C.
I don't wish to be flamed as if I was denying the extraordinary qualities
of Small C, including its null price (not quite, if you need the books and
the Microsoft M-80 assembler, although I know that NOW there are free almost
compatible assemblers, which PERHAPS correctly assemble ANY code generated
by Small-C).
I just warmly suggest to APPLICATIONS programmers to save a lot of headache
for 20$ only.
If MIX doesn't send me a new copy of the compiler which I anyway already have
after such a post ....

Jacques Goldberg - Technion, Haifa, Israel.