C for VM/CMS

[Karl Geiger]

I have just installed a C compiler on my VM/370 system.  The product is
from WATCOM, Computer Systems Group, University of Waterloo, 158
University Ave., Ontario, Canada N2L 3E9.  License fee is $1800.00
per year, with a 50% discount to educational institutions.

The code from the compiler looks very clean to me (I hack Assembler 370
as IBM writes EVERYTHING in Assembler).  There is a nice little front-end
to CMS routines so users may interface EXECs (REXX and otherwise) easily.
Waterloo C also includes a lot of CMS file system interfaces, a good set
of documentation, and a copy of Kernighan and Ritchie.

I had had it up to my eyebrows with Pascal/VS and PL/I on VM.  I am now
a novice C programmer, and love the cleanliness of expression, and look
forward to a langauge which won't get in my way. 

Please contact me at this address or at KARL%USCVM.BITNET at WISCVM.ARPA.

:Karl

"Life is rough in the putty-knife factory."
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