Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Query for the Net Message-ID: Date: 20 Nov 90 00:53:44 GMT References: <1990Nov12.154623.2287@clinet.fi> <21683@well.sf.ca.us> <1990Nov16.201320.4842@servalan.uucp> <146@screamer.csee.usf.edu> <15941@cbmvax.commodore.com> <2024@shodha.enet.dec.com> Lines: 38 >In article <2024@shodha.enet.dec.com> ridder@elvira.enet.dec.com (Hans Ridder) writes: [much discussion of SAS/C] >Wow! I don't think Randell was suggesting that the problem you were >having didn't exist, just that it might have been fixed. You say you >don't have time to deal with it, but you apparently have time to let us >all know how much trouble everything is for you. Randell was trying to >help you with your problem. It appears that you really don't want help, >you just want to complain. You're right, I will call SAS. I have a non-beta SAS/C 5.10. I have been experiencing optimizor problems with the compiler since the first program I have compiled with Lattice C 5.05 (MicroEMACS 3.10). I like your tone - you must be real good for DEC customer support (1/2 :-) Reading news takes very little effort on my part; I can do it late at night. Calling SAS requires that I take time out of my day as a busy Computer Engineer and part-time graduate student and make a long-distance phone call. Sometimes, reporting a compiler bug for something that is my personal "toy" doesn't take precedence over keeping a running computer shop for 60 users. >I'll bet the whole net is "sick to death" of people saying this or that >is junk or broken, when they won't take appropriate steps to take care >of it, except to tell everyone on the net how clever they were to find a >bug. I've never thought of myself as "clever". I'd rather not find a bug in my compiler, thank you. If I thought SAS C was "junk", I wouldn't have invested a large chunk of money in it. I *do* think that SAS has a long way to go until they have a relatively bug-free compiler and library. That is my _personal opinion_. > Hans-Gabriel Ridder Digital Equipment Corporation -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |