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From: giguere@aries5.uucp (Eric Giguere)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: next Manx release?
Message-ID: <308@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Date: 17 Jul 89 20:49:38 GMT
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In article <24869@dhw68k.cts.com> daveegan@dhw68k.cts.com (Dave Egan) writes:
>For the latest in Manx upgrade information, just see the August 1989,
>issue of AmigaWorld.  There, on page 88, you can find some marketing
>information on ACE (Aztec C Express) which includes a "fully integrated
>'point-and-shoot' project manager [whatever that is?]" and other goodies.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

The `point-and-shoot project manager' is probably a system similar to
Lightspeed C's on the (ack!) Mac.  It's actually quite a nice environment
to work in.  The best way to describe it would be as a `visual makefile'.
You list all the source and library files needed for the project and the
integrated environment takes care of doing all the updates.  Editing a file
is done merely by moving the cursor over the file name in the list of
project files and double-clicking, which loads the file up into a text editor.
Makes me wonder if Manx is going to be providing a new text editor or maybe
some kind of generic interface (ARexx?).

While the integrated environment of Lightspeed C is neat and could be very
well done on the Amiga, the best thing about Lightspeed C is its compilation
and linking speed --- the thing is blazingly fast.  THAT's what I'd like to
see on the Amiga.  (Yes, Lightspeed C does not generate the best code,
but for pure development purposes that shouldn't be much of an issue until
you actually have to release code.)

I wouldn't be surprised, though, if this ACE announcement is a bit premature.
Personally I'd be satisfied in just getting an ANSI-compatible Manx compiler.
After all, with the Amiga it's easy to build our own (semi-)integrated
environment....

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