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My Zeta-C compiler predated Symbolics C by almost two years. One customer said they'd run millions of lines of code through it.
by ScottBurson 12y ago
My Zeta-C compiler predated Symbolics C by almost two years.
One customer said they'd run millions of lines of code through it.
- hga 12y agoSo Symbolics' announcement of their vaporware C compiler didn't cost you all your sales? Good to hear that.
- ScottBurson 12y agoIt was a problem, as I recall, but not nearly as big a problem as the fact that people stopped buying the machines :-) Actually, it turned out -- though I never managed to communicate this to potential users -- Zeta-C and Symbolics C served different use cases. Symbolics C was best for porting entire C programs; Zeta-C was best if you had a library written in C and wanted to call it from Lisp.