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From: wieland@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeffrey J Wieland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: $99 C++ compiler
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Date: 10 May 88 22:03:28 GMT
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In article <8805051248.AA20720@decwrl.dec.com> nadkarni@erlang.dec.com (Ashok P. Nadkarni DTN 226-7448) writes:
>
>	Also, how about POWER C from MIX software ? $19.95 for the compiler
>	$19.95 for the debugger, and, get this, $10 for the library (450
>	functions) source. Again sounds too good to be true. They claim
>	to beat Turbo-C and MS C in the standard benchmarks.

In a recent article in Micro-Cornucopia, it was claimed that the author
could not benchmark POWER C because it COULD NOT COMPILE RECURSIVE
PROGRAMS CORRECTLY!!

				Jeff Wieland
				wieland@ecn.purdue.edu