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From: walton@tybalt.caltech.edu (Steve Walton)
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Subject: Re: ...and a compiler.
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In article <4364@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) writes:
>Structures as first-class objects is moderately usefull, and I may be
>mistaken about those being missing from Manx.

They're there.
>
>Function prototypes - well, you'll take a compiler with function
>prototypes from me by prying it out of my cold dead hand. On my latest
>project (porting a large Mac application), prototyping everything has
>probably saved me more hours than I've spent on the port. 

Arguable.  I happen to know Mike has 2.5 MB of RAM.  For us lowlier
mortals :-), the fact that Aztec is small enough to run in 512K with
its temporary files in RAM: adds up to a lot of time saved on a smaller
Amiga.  With more memory, Mike is probably right.  A full ANSI compiler
from Manx is promised for the next release, but I don't know an
estimated date for it.

    Steve Walton, guest as walton@tybalt.caltech.edu
    AMETEK Computer Research Division, ametek!walton@csvax.caltech.edu
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