21 Apr
2002
21 Apr
'02
4:01 a.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
(The guy sitting across the room from me is writing
some firmware for
the project we're working on. A $2000 commercial 8051 C compiler (for
Windows of course, the land of commercial software) just crashed
because a function in the code it was compiling wasn't prototyped. If
this weren't commercial bullshit, I'd have the source code, and I'd
have fixed the bug in ten or fifteen minutes. But noooooo, that bug
will be there for at least the next year. Some people just like
commercial crap...I will never figure out why.)
My gripe is that even if you develop new hardware using FPGA/CPLD's you
are still tied to windows crap, because the manufactures will not
release the programing information for said devices.
--
Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
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