CompuServe Messages

>>The idea of building all my own tools has a certain apeal to me but in reality I don't have the expertise or the time to write a compiler, and I expect that goes for most amateur and professional developers.<< For the amateurs, I agree. An amateur is, for me, someone writing programs as a hobby who does not plan to sell them. >>But that is an extreme case, I find most compilers are useful and reliable.<< I agree. I didn't mean to suggest that compilers make errors as a rule and working programs as an exception. >>Some of them may get things wrong once or twice but I can accept this as long as it doesn't happen too often.<< Try to explain that to those people who just crashed with a plane because of those errors. >>I expect that most PCs these days are being sold by non-technical salesmen to non-technical customers. They aren't going to carefully evaluate the performance and work out how fast it needs to be for an application. The decision is likely to be based on "Its got more MHz so it must be better".<< I have, unfortunately, the same opinion Bart Van Bockstaele at 100574.2352@compuserve.com … On AutoPilot and Amiga all the way from Belgium NOT from Mars!…