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Aucbvax.4755 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Wed Oct 28 12:13:36 1981 whitesmith's compilers >From mo@LBL-UNIX Wed Oct 28 11:23:59 1981 Hate to badmouth a friend and one of the original free spirits, but Whitesmith's compilers are generally losers. The don't implement C; only something close. They have strange restrictions like all externals must be initialized!! And if you worry about comptability, or portability, their I/O library is indefensibly different from STDIO. (By indefensible, I mean they came very close, and then arbitrarily decided to change routine names, or subtle semantics.) Also, I haven't ever talked with any users who first didn't have to fix lots of bugs before it started working. I know several people who have Whitesmiths compilers and they all disrecommend them. PJ, if you see this, I'm sorry, but it's true.... -Mike

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