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From: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MANX 3.6 & SDB
Message-ID: <995@percival.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Nov-87 13:20:14 EST
Article-I.D.: percival.995
Posted: Fri Nov 27 13:20:14 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 30-Nov-87 00:32:40 EST
References: <1554@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer)
Organization: Society for Burned-out College Graduates
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Summary: Don't flame the programmer

In article <1554@cup.portal.com> Lawrence_E_Rosenman@cup.portal.com writes:
>I just got off the phone with MANX Software systems, inquiring on the status
>of Aztec C Release 3.6 with the Source Level Debugger (SDB)
>Apparently, they talked with the developer today (11/23/87) and he stated
>that it would be another 3-4 WEEKS (Meaning Christmas or so) till it
>will be ready.
>I think that this STINKS.  These people should be Flamed, and flamed heavily
>for ADVERTISING, and making face to face claims, and then slipping
>them a MONTH or more.

Your're missing an important fact, Amiga World published the Manx advertisment
a full month before they were supposed to.  Also consider that magazine ads
have to be submitted a couple of months before they get published (usually),
they probably expected the product to be ready by then.  I am actually 
suprised it's going to be ready this soon.  At SIGGRAPH this last summer, I
overheard Leo Schwab ask Jim Goodnow how the Source Level Debugger was coming
along.  He replied, "It's coming along."  I too, am sorry the product got 
delayed, I sent my order in last week.  But I don't think it's worth switching
compilers over.  The same thing could as easily happen with Lattice.  And
finally, please don't flame the programmer who's writing the thing, let him
work on it instead of reading flames.  As anxious as I am to get SDB, I'd
rather have a late program that works than a rushed program that is a close
personal friend of the Guru.  


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