Hello Coridon!

Monday December 28 1998, Coridon Henshaw writes to David Noon:

 DN>> I don't see why I should quadruple my RAM for a compiler. The
 DN>> current VAC++ is already a memory hog with its WorkFrame/2 and
 DN>> Visual Builder. It soaks up all the spare bytes of my current 32MB
 DN>> and pages quite a deal beyond that. I cannot conceive of what IBM
 DN>> did to make the situation even worse.

 CH> I dunno; maybe they wrote it in interpretive C++ running on a JAVA-based
 CH> interpreter?

 CH> Has IBM added any 'killer' features to explain this massive bloat?

Visualage is written in Smalltalk as is the Cobol compiler.


Vince

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