12 Apr
2011
12 Apr
'11
12:08 a.m.
On 11 Apr 2011 at 15:39, Chris M wrote:
Packed QC w/something? At least one version of QC
came w/an
interpreted C, IIRC.
I'll have to go back to my MSC collection (it goes all the way back
to when Microsoft sold Lattice C as their own) to see when M$ tossed
QuickC with their regular compiled product.
You could semi automate the process, and alleviate
all those source
files, using batch commands. I used to do it w/assembler.
You mean, for instance, like using MAKE? Before MS got the bugs
worked out of nmake, I had my own any-idiot-can-use it called BUILD
that worked out the dependencies without the nasty syntax of make
(less capable, but good enough for my purposes).
Eventually, things got fast enough that compiling in bits and pieces
didn't matter much.
Amen. In this day and age you can't get away from
them, but they do
have that tendency.
I still work from paper, at least in outline form. I find it just
about impossible to work out a program without a pad of paper or a
whiteboard close by. By the time I'm entering code, the design's
pretty much fully worked out.
--Chuck