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From: djh@neuromancer.metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Okay, you Amiga Types, its time to bash your amiga. :)
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Date: 7 Feb 91 19:55:43 GMT
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In article <7692@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
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>I haven't seen anything for DOS or UNIX that comes close to Aztec C with SDB,
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>and I'm sure the same is true of Lattice's symbolic debugger. It's not due to
>any special virtue in SDB or CPR, just how the Amiga environment helps
>debuggers.
>

Gee, I'd really -=like=- to believe that! In fact, there was a stream of
messages on rec.games.programmer about how poor Amiga development tools are.
I've used Aztec since it came out, Microsoft C up to 6.0, and Borland's
Turbo C and C++. Nothing on the Amiga comes close. Borland's and Microsoft's
integrated programming environments are a quantum leap in programmer
efficiency. SDB is OK, but it's not really that far removed from Sun's
dbxtool, now is it?

On the code-generation level, neither Aztec nor SAS compilers provided the
aggressive levels of optimization that Microsoft, Metaware and GreenHills
do. Especially the latter - there's a REAL MEN's compiler.

I spoke with Jim Goodnow (formerly of Manx) several years ago just before
5.0 came out. "Where's the Amiga answer to Turbo-C?" His reply was more
along the lines of "(yawn) Whassamatter, don't you like our environment?"
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