Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!sri-unix!rutgers!labrea!rocky!ali From: ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: amiga software - your recommendations Message-ID: <806@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> Date: Sun, 6-Dec-87 01:52:43 EST Article-I.D.: rocky.806 Posted: Sun Dec 6 01:52:43 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 23:30:43 EST References: <324@siemens.UUCP> Reply-To: ali@rocky.stanford.edu (Ali Ozer) Distribution: na Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department Lines: 21 In article <324@siemens.UUCP> biggers@edsel.UUCP (Mark Biggers) writes: >- What language implementations do you recommend? I used MANX C >for awhile in the past, but the slow turnaround time for >editing, compiling, editing, debugging can discourage anyone With a decent amount of memory (2M or more), and good use of one or more of the ASDG recoverable ramdisk (VD0:), the Amiga ramdisk (RAM:), and the dynamic floppy caching program (FaccII), you can hardly call working with Manx C slow. You can keep your editor (MicroGnuEmacs 1b, in my case) in the background at all times, the library files, and cc, as, etc, in VD0:, the object files in RAM:, and the sources on floppy... And to avoid loading the include files over and over, you use Manx's precompiled include file feature. Believe me, under those circumstances, Manx flies. And the cost of such a system isn't all that much more --- VD0: is shareware ($10) and FaccII is about $30. In addition you have the cost of extra memory (~$350-400 for extra 2 Megs for the 2000). Not much at all, if you're really considering doing development work. Oh, VD0: is on Fish 58, I believe. A most for anyone with 1 or more Megs. Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu