#MUSIC
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I thought a music program might actually be available or close anyway.
(Foolish me… <grin>) Icon is coming along except for its one rather
serious flaw which I still cannot ferret out. This has never happened to me
before, a bug that has resisted all my efforts for months to track down.
Lack of a good debugging tool is one problem, I can't even use wack which I
have because it won't fit in 512K with Icon and Icon's workspace at the same
time, just hangs the machine up. So I am really going it blind trying to
debug Lattice's code. It may be soon though because I am recruiting some
others to help, maybe fresh ideas and outlooks will generate a solution.
Thanks.
Gary, I had a look at a product a few weeks ago that seems like it might be
whatyou want (though I think it's overpriced at 90-100 bucks (not sure).
Anyway, it's called Metascope, and looks very good. It allows you to open
about 4 or 5 different types of window (each with a different purpose, ie.
memory, symbol, etc.).
I presume that like wack though, metascope needs the binary image to be
totally in memory? The Icon core image is at least 256K, (it is 261K on my
wicat and SUN, so with Lattice C who knows) and I know the smallest workspace
Icon grabs for itself on startup is 140K, which doesn't leave much in a 512K
machine for a window debugger, wack won't even run. I have heard of
Metascope and it sounds very nice though, maybe when someone can get amiga
some more memory. I have been dumping object code myself and transferring it
serially to mini, massaging it and pushing it into a symbolic debugger
running on it, all of which is not much fun and probably is not telling me
much about amiga's problems anyway. Oh well, push on. The Icon book k (THE
BOOK) is called "The Icon Programming Language", Ralph E Griswold & Madge T.
Griswold, Prentice-Hall 1983, ISBN 0-13-449777-5 and I paid $21.95 for it. I
had to order it of course, most bookstores probably don't have something like
that in stock. Icon had better hurry up and work though or it is going to be
behind in revision, I am porting version 5.9 and the university of Arizona is
supposed to release version 6.0 this summer. I don't want to go through all
this again! Bye – Gary
I see what you mean about the size, wetc. Whew! Well as for the book, I was
just informed by our local (computer only) book store that 'The Icon
Programming Language' book by the Dr.s Griswold has arrived. Will be picking
it up tomorrow. (don't know how many northern pesos it will set me back) What
is the nature of the 'last bug'? Would the interpreter as is allow me to get
a feel for the flavour and do some of the examples? (I could promise not to
let it out that way)