raymond@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov.arpa (Eric A. Raymond) (12/13/88)
Look in the back of any ad crazy computer magazine and you'll find copies for around $70. Sure it's not the price Turbo Pascal was years ago, but that was years ago (and you get more with the system). Now that is not the professional package (you don't get the standalone debugger or the assembler), but its all I've needed to date. I've used Turbo C on some fairly large programs (70K+ lines) and have never had to use the standalone debugger. It does have some nice features which could easily be added to the integrated debugger, but the convenience/speed of the integrated debugger is more useful. (Of course, I have 736K for DOS (backfilled extended memory) and 64K of EMS for the editor).) Not that I have that much memory for the application, but at least it runs and I can debug it. It would be really nice if TC exploited more than 64K of the extended/expanded memory I have. Why not swap out the compiler when running? Why not use the extra memory for symbol tables? Why not let me have n files open at a time (although pick makes it a bit less hard to deal with) in split screens??? Sure, I really want EMACS (and have made my copy appear as much like EMACS as possible) which is integrated into the environment instead of WordStar. (A text processor for programming?). -------- Name: Eric A. Raymond ARPA: raymond@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov SLOW: NASA Ames Research Center, MS 244-17, Moffett Field, CA 94035 Nothing left to do but :-) :-) :-)