19 Feb
2015
19 Feb
'15
9:44 a.m.
Was it the sheer will power and marketing of Borland,
or was
it the volume of developers who didn't need intensive low-level I/O?
Or,
cheap and usable integrated development environment.
My students tended to be intimidated by EDIT, COMPILE, and LINK as three
separate programs to run from the prompt.
'course then I had to remind them an awful lot of times that the
assignment required SAVING a source file (and it had to be the final
version, not an earlier draft) and create an executable file on their
disk, not just test run it in the IDE. I even made them print out the
relevant portion of the directory, and kicked back a lot of submissions
where the executable file and source file did not have appropriate
sequence.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com