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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: toy operating systems, like AmigaOS
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 18:02:15 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv@xs4all.nl) wrote:
-
- : In article <4ksu6q$haa@nadine.teleport.com> sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem) writes:
- : >
- : > This tell that the amiga OS is bad for programmers in genreral.. more
- : > or less depanding on the methode you choose to write code.
-
- : It means that the Amiga OS is a _bad debugging tool_--much like my wristwatch is
- : a poor screwdriver. An important factor in user-friendly, desktop OS's is that
- : the user is not a programmer and the two may have different requirements.
-
- CBM NEVER ofered a developer version of the amiga OS. Basicly they gave
- us a screwdriver to tell time!
-
- : Look at the debugging environment that comes with StormC: It does a lot of the
- : protection stuff that eg. unices do, but for the developer. It does not get in
- : the way of the user.
-
- I dont code in C on the amiga, but I sure running all those hack like
- enforcer, mungwall, etc... help reduce crash. but I find that little,
- very little.
-
- : It would be great IMO to have an add-on layer to the OS that aggressively checks
- : and reports everything, but there shouldn't be too much reason for the user to
- : run that.
-
- Yep, MP with resource tracking + function header to do some runtime data
- type check would be nice. But it does not exist... what might be of the
- amiga OS does not make it better... it sux for programmer, or should I
- say for program that sometime dont write perfect code :)
-
- Stephan
-