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From: ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward)
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Subject: Softworks 'C'
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Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 01:01:35 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 15 01:01:35 1984
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For those who are wondering about Softworks 'C', I offer the following:

There is no way possible to edit, compile, assemble and link a program
without going to the finder and copying a file from one disk to
another.

The compiler gives error messages by line number but there is no way,
short of counting from the top, of finding line numbers in a file.

I paid four hundred dollars and got a "pre-release" version.  To get
the released version, you will have to pay extra.

Printf does not know anything about windows.  It sticks the text on the
screen, like a "normal" computer, no matter what else is there.

I was not able to use "create" to create a file.  This may be because
I gave up early and used the toolbox version.  Great for portability.

You must use the Apple linker, which has no library look-up ability. 
If you want to use a routine that is in a file, you get the whole file
in your program.  The "hello world" program is huge.

There is no documentation telling what routines are in which files.

It is a version of Whitesmiths.

Other than that, it's great.
-- 
Michael Ward, NCAR/SCD
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