CompuServe Messages

Robert, One thing to remember: The SAS C compiler works reasonably well, as is. The changes they provided in the last "big update" seemed entirely useless to us, and we use SAS _every day_ to compile a huge application (Imagemaster R/t) as well as some other not-so-well-known applications such as my amatuer radio software, which is a demanding real-time application. It all works fine. It's not big deal, mainly because the product isn't a bad one now – SAS did a credible job. Who knows what the next version would offer, anyway. Yeah, it could be faster, and it darn sure could make better code – but it works ok now. Compare that to the Aztec compiler when it went nipples north, wasn't worth donkey spit in comparison, IMHO. You can use SAS as it stands to develop just about anything you can imagine (or have resources to expend on). This isn't a serious problem – the compiler's usable for the forseeable future, as is. –Ben …via AutoPilot