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From: singer@endor.harvard.edu (THINK Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac ][ C compilers
Keywords: LSC vs Aztec
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Date: 13 Dec 87 20:07:16 GMT
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In article <10814@duke.cs.duke.edu> gleicher@duke.cs.duke.edu (Michael Gleicher) writes:
>(I know this debate has been had before, but I'm a new convert to the
> Mac Universe)
>
>Can anyone tell me the relative merits/demerits of Aztec C (or some other
>inexpensive development environment) vs. LightSpeed on the Mac ][.
>
>LightSpeed is what everyone seems to recommend, but Aztec says it has a
>symbolic debugger (any good? I'm used to codeview on a PC and dbx on UNIX)
>make (does LSC have this?) and unlimited data size (this is important as
>I hope to port a prolog compiler from UNIX eventually, does LSC let you
>have huge memory spaces? - I want to have as much of my 5 megs for heap
>as possible)

	I've heard that the Aztec symbolic debugger doesn't exist, but
I've never seen it, so I can't be more definite than that.

	LightspeedC has *more* than make. It's got full automatic project
management, which means that you'll never have to write a makefile.

	LightspeedC allows you to use the full memory available on any
Macintosh, as do most sane-minded Mac development environments. LSC is
subject to some limitations, namely a 32K size limitation on statically
declared arrays. However, in C this can be easily worked around.

There are no catches in LightspeedC.

		--Rich




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