#What goes where?
17-Feb-88 19:09:33
Sb: #109610-#What goes where?
Fm: Ben Blish 72667,1341
To: John Draper 76703,4322
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Yeah – well, I don't fault Manx – for that… I fault them for allowing
in-line asm, trying to push off incompatible object files for so long,
defaulting to a _different_ default (16 bits) than how the original 'c'
stuff was written (and thereby making the manx stuff incompatible) not
supporting some of the more advanced features of the language (Till
recently, I _think_) like structure passing and so on, and puching a
debugger as a useful tool – while imho a debugger is a tool for creating
lazy and programmers, who don't take care when they write because they
think the debugger will pull them 'out of the fire'. All the effort manx
spent on the debugger should (again, imho) have been spent on the compiler.
–Ben– (Happily playing with Lattice 4.0 as I type)