tjb@snow.UUCP (Timothy Bissell) (02/12/85)
[Go on bug, make my day..] I'm sorry if I appeared overly critical of ACTION!, 'cos I really do like the language- I think that saying it should never be used is going a bit too far. It is the *only* high level language I use on the atari, and it is better that B***C for quick hacks- who notices ~1 second compile times? And the editor really speeds changes up. I guess the reason why I whined was the excellence of the whole package threw these teeny-weeny problemettes into stark contrast (suck, suck :-). Support doesn't bother us out here in the UK- we never get any. We send off our registration forms like good little boys, and they're recycled as fire-lighters somewhere in the US snail. What do you mean; who needs recursion ? I always calculate my factorials that way :-). Seriously though, if you want to write a recursive descent parser (I must admit I've only just started mine) there may be some problems. I never could figure out LALR parsers, so LL(1) is the only way. Another couple of questions; 1. Can you open the second screen in the ACTION! editor onto the same file without reading in a fresh copy? 2. Does anyone out there used the atari Macro-Assembler (MAC/65 hasn't reached the black country yet)? If so, how do you run a .OBJ file? The only way I have discovered is to load it using L,postfixed /N, then running at address. However, it just hangs up at the end if I 'brk' or 'rts' from the program. I haven't had any mail reach me, but then again, all the news that has reached here has been jumbled chronologically (I still can't work out that DOS requirements letter) so here is (I think) my address relative to 'seismo' seismo!mcvax!ukc!qtlon!flame!ubu!snow!tjb Thanks for your time and help, Tim Bissell, University of Warwick, UK [[ These opinions can be blamed entirely on my parents and mentors manipulating me since my birth ]]