UNIX C...

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I taught C last Fall quarter. I provided a UNIX (BSD) account for all
but allowed students a free choice of which C they used for their work.
The class split into BSD C vs Macintash vs LIghtspeed rather rapidly plus
a single ATARI C (out on a limb!).

The Macintosh C's have definite problems with command lines.
All the C's differed in ther interpretation of 1.0/0.0 and the like.
The libraries (#includes) were all different.

All students used the UNIX mail system to submit work and the grading
for the class specified that the code HAD TO BE OK on the PDP UNIX.

Nobody had any real problems (accept for having to kludge a command line
interface for the Macintosh people.)

I guess that this shows that the differences were largely matters of
taste etc.  How evre a number of the MS/DOS are starting to look for
UNIX-like alternatives....One asked me which came first and when I pointed
out that UNIX was born in 1968..1969 he ceased talking to me...
Dick Botting
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