Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!scs!cognos!geovision!pt From: pt@geovision.uucp (Paul Tomblin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: $50 Power C -- any good? Message-ID: <381@geovision.UUCP> Date: 19 Aug 88 01:48:00 GMT Article-I.D.: geovisio.381 References: <1450YZKCU@CUNYVM> Reply-To: pt@geovision.UUCP (Paul Tomblin) Organization: GeoVision Corp, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 38 I bought Power C Version 1.0 without the debugger and here are my general impressions: 1 - The compiler is probably written to recognize Sieve programs, because my personal experience is as follows: Machine: Tandy 1200HD, 640K, 128K disk cache Program: ffinput - One of mine Compiler Compile/Link Time EXE Size Run Time Power C 1:53 19264 bytes 0:24 Turbo v1.0 0:46 22216 0:04 Program: CB31 - PD C Beautifier Power C 1:45 18928 1:20 Turbo 0:41 12638 1:29 Not very scientific, but what do you want? 2 - The manual is beautiful. It is a softbound book a little larger than Waite's C Primer Plus. It has a HUGE C tutorial and a good reference section. 3 - The library is very complete. They claim a superset of Borland and MicroSoft! 4 - Tech support is pretty good. I wrote a letter with 14 points, (See, I like point form :-)), some questions, some bugs, and they sent a letter answering all the questions, and a new release fixing the bugs. Sorry I didn't have time to run the benchmarks with the new release. 5 - General Impressions: Not as much fun as Turbo, but a great C tutorial and manual with a free compiler thrown in. So, what do you think of my first posting? ----- Paul Tomblin "OS/2 should not be confused with a REAL operating system, like UNIX"