Comments on: Lazy Reading for 2024/03/24 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/03/24/lazy-reading-for-2024-03-24/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:55:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Thomas Nikolajsen https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/03/24/lazy-reading-for-2024-03-24/comment-page-1/#comment-492859 Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:55:03 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=28423#comment-492859 Thanks for link to Aztec C site!
It really hit memory lane here:
Aztec C was my first C compiler on the Amiga; which was my first computer.
Think it was version 3.2; I got a copy on a floppy or two from a friend, no documentation..
But it was a really standard C compiler (well K&R C .. it was several years before ANSI C standard), so knowing cc(1) from UNIX (BSD indeed :), from uni was just fine. And quite a revelation that Z editor was a vi(1) clone! (didn’t have a decent text editor on my Amiga yet)
Aztec C didn’t do much in optimization, but it did work quite well on a floppy only Amiga 500.
After some years Matt also made a C compiler for the Amiga, which blew everything.. as usual.
I just found full docs for Aztec C for Amiga on archive.org; it isn’t on site linked here. I never saw it before, but, as said, for basic usage docs aren’t needed.

]]> By: Felix https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/03/24/lazy-reading-for-2024-03-24/comment-page-1/#comment-492818 Mon, 25 Mar 2024 04:54:10 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=28423#comment-492818 “Every OS sucks.” And every programming language too, right?

That’s the kind of thing said by people who always insist on using things backwards and sideways, against all advice and even common sense. Hand them a hammer, they’ll try to pound nails with the butt end of the handle, then complain that the tool is broken.

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