Aztec C vrs 1.3!
05-Jan-89 22:41:35
Sb: #28837-Aztec C vrs 1.3!
Fm: New member 73016,27
To: Richard Rae/SYSOP 76703,4253
No I wasnt comparing it to a HLL. I just found the transition from a hardware
manual on the 8086 to MASM a big bore. Take a quick routine written with the
Mini-Assembler on the ii+ and compare it to the same thing written on a machine
runing Masm. I admit I am a Hack. Not Hacker. So that is part of the problem
no doubt. Some of the "tricks" needed to link and compile programs are a bit
excesive. My fav example is MPW for the Mac. Who in the hell came up with
that? Im sure that part of it is also the short fuse I have for programs that
make me think in a too structured form. I worked with a guy who would spend up
to three months thinking about a program before he even turned on the power.
And even with all this extra thought he would spend more time debuging than
anyone I know. Thats who I think of when I get twitchy over some languages
fussyness factor. Heres an example of how errors are handled between two C
compilers. After transfering files between machines an EOF char gets lodged
inside the end of a text file. One compiler finds it and says Illegal char and
stops the compi+I@from finishing. The other reports it and compiles te file
Ignoring the offending char. Guess which one I like?