Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!reed!omen!percival!baer 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 Lines: 30 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. -- -Ken Baer. // Amiga: This is Life in the Fast Lane! \X/ USENET - ...tektronix!reed!percival!baer OR baer@percival.pdx.com "The Few, The Proud, The Criminally Insane - Oberlin Computer Science" - me.