Hello Allan!

Tuesday April 16 1996 18:49, Allan Mertner wrote to Keith Thomson:

 KT>> The problem..  The Borlandish implemetation is very lax and
 KT>> closer to C (IE more bugs can get thru)

 AM> Why is it a problem that VP/2 v1.0 now supports the entire range of
 AM> Delphi language extensions?  I actually find that to be an advantage -
 AM> and if you do not want them, you can of course disable them with the
 AM> new {$Delphi-} directive.

amazing..  I put in a comment about Lax syntax and type checking, And you
convert it to DELPHI!  :)

 KT>> The one thing i'd like to see in SP is a Text-mode IDE..

 AM> I think this is one of the things you'll never get.  According to Rene
 AM> from SpeedSoft, nobody should use OS/2 if they haven't got the machine
 AM> to run a GUI - besides which, SP never has been really good at the
 AM> text-mode things anyway. (Or GUI for that matter, but that's a
 AM> different story :*)

SP is Quite good at text mode.. I have a whole text mode library similar to
TTT, And it's faster than the Dos equivelant..  :)

It's better than VP with the graphical stuff.. (I don't do Delphi extensions..)

 KT>> The only place that SP is behind VP in is the size of the result
 KT>> code (which is being worked on) and the debugger (Which i never
 KT>> need in SP anyway!)

 AM> If you don't need a debugger, SP is the product for you, right.  I am
 AM> looking forward to see how long you are going to wait for this "code
 AM> size enhancement" to appear - so far, you've been waiting since v1.0 9
 AM> months ago, and the code has only gotten bigger and bigger...

Not really, PM Code has stayed the same..  The diffrent linking style made
the VIO programs a bit larger..  but it's supposed to be reduced in the
next version, Which is supposed to be in the mail..

As for debugger..  VP needs it..  (Lax syntax checking, etc) Borland needs
it (same) C needs it (confusing pointer dynamix, Lax syntax..) but Modula
and SP i've never really needed a debugger in.

Keith  (kzinti{at}iti2.net), [Team LORE, Team OS/2 (Fanatics Division)]

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