Small C?

[gvg]

from: G.V. Goebel / Hewlett-Packard Corvallis Division
to:   All You Kind Folks
date: Saturday, 6 April 1985
re:   Thank You

That "overwhelming response" I mentioned earlier is continuing.  I would
thank everyone individually, but, unfortunately, it would simply take
me more time than I have available at the present.

So, I might as well thank everyone at once:

	- Rob Warnock
 	- Jerrold L. Gray
        - Dave Herron
	- Andrew Macpherson (all the way from the UK!)
        - Gino Bloch
        - Lee Thomas

Sad to say, "Small C" looks like a dead end for my own purposes.

I'm working in sales promotion for HP's new "Integral" portable computer,
and I managed to scrape up some public-domain stuff that came in handy and
maybe even got us some sales.  (Like many brand-new computers that are not
complete clones of the products of a certain Incredibly Big Manufacturer of
personal computers, we are hurting for software right now.)

We made a few sales by simply being able to provide the "Kermit" data
communications program to universities, for example.

When BYTE had its recent issue on public domain software, we picked up a
copy of Dave Betz's XLISP, which proved to be pretty well put together and
a lot of fun to play with.  (I have been teaching myself LISP with it.)
One article also mentioned "Small C" - hence my question.

While I was somewhat dissapointed that "Small C" wouldn't run on UNIX
without a lot more tweaking on my part than I had time to consider, it
has piqued my curiosity.  I'll probably end up running off a copy of the
article - if just to teach me more about how compilers work...

Again, thanks for the help.

					Regards - GVG
                                        hplabs!hp-pcd!gvg

PS: It was pleasant to see this civility after some of arguments I've found
myself getting sucked into on the Net.  I am new to the Net, and I was
surprised to find out that expressing the most idle opinions makes one fair game
for attack and invective.  (Sadly, the internal HP network is much worse in
this regard than the Net in general.)  I an half-tempted to post - in a
prominent place - a letter with the following statements:

	- The Pope is Catholic.
        - Bears live in the woods.
        - The sun comes up in the morning.
        - President Grant is buried in Grant's Tomb.

- and see if I get arguments over it ...