3 Jan
2022
3 Jan
'22
11:56 a.m.
On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 11:47 AM emanuel stiebler via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 2022-01-03 13:19, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
Compilers today tend to still suffer from cascading error problems... I
usually fix as many as I can before that starts to set in and then rebuild.
But I must say that computers are sometimes much better at finding
bugs and problems than I am, even when I'm thinking. Better to let
automation fix the easy stuff so I can reserve the thinking time for
really hard bugs...
Warner
Compiling all the code for our product took the
11/750 6 hours to
compile and link plus an additional 2 hours for an 11/730 to link
under a different version of VMS. 8 hours total to rebuild totally
from source. Some things about the good old days weren't so good.
Disagree here ;-)
Before you hit compile, you switched your brain on, and thought for a
while what you did.
When I watch this kids in the office now pressing compile after each
character they typed, ....