- do you really think that the current Rev / MC IDEs allow us to maintain & debug scripts with hundreds or thousands of lines ? Of course not... But
CodeWarrior (for instance) does...
So in conclusion, I'm tempted to say that the language itself doesn't look amateurish at all (and DOESN'T need to include any C-like syntax). But OTOH the IDE (especially the scripting & debugging environments) REALLY look amateurish... And what you gain in productivity because of the syntax, gets lost at the same time by the poor scripting tools...
Salut, JB,
And my I say that I agree wholehearted with every word you wrote...until you ended with the statements I included above:
1. The stack script of Serendipity Library has 4,566 lines as of the latest update.
2. I just pulled my CodeWarrior v6 Gold edition off a back shelf. I see there is a debugger somewhere on the CD, & I note the need to install "debugger nubs" before debugging. Debug mode (albeit still buggy) in Revolution is a pulldown menu away. Does Code Warrior's debug your C source or your compiled C? If the later, how can you make a favorable case for that against Revolution, where I can immediately modify the errant code and continue runtime testing without rebuilding and/or relinking? What does CW's debugger do better than Revolution's in combination with the variable watcher & and message watcher. I compare Revolution's debugger favorably with Data General's PL/1 online source debugger I used for several years.
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Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company http://www.oenolog.net/who.htm
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