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From: "Mark Wilson" <m.wilson@dial.pipex.com>
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Subject: Re: What's the point of CodeWarrior ??
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 19:25:12 +0100
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>Mark Wilson wrote:
>
>> >What a pile of cack!
>

Um, don't think I did say that actually...

>The yaroze version editor is buggy, yes. They sorted the IDE out on thePro
>version about 6monthes ago, no more dodgy characters and stuff.
>Perhaps if enough people mail them they'll do an IDE update for the
>yaroze compiler that provides the same fixes.
>

Or if enough people moan here...

>I suggest you check out what the ProDev version (which isn't that far
>ahead of the Yaroze one) costs. The differance is measured in thousands.
>And Metrowerks aren't overcharging for it in context. Several companys
>charge much more than that:
>

I agree that CW is a bargain at £90.

>eg. Microtec 68000 dev tools for embedded systems:
>£1000 for the C compiler + assembler
>£1000 for the C++ compiler (requires the C/assembler package)
>£1500 for the debugger (and you have to port the monitor program yourself
>which is a bugger even for experienced 68K experts)
>

And the Microtec compiler is a bit smelly, GNU is better.

>
>> The only reason I see for using CodeWarrior is the debugger, which beats
the
>> GNU one hands down. The rest of the system ranges between merely
acceptable
>> and downright incompetent.
>
>The debugger is a big step beyond the GNU one. The rest of the systemis
actually
>rather good. The compiler itself is very fast compared to GNU,
>and the code browsing stuff is excellent (better in many respects than the
>Microsoft IDE).
>
>
Ah, now this *is* a reply to something I said. I was probably a bit cruel...
should have said "good to buggy"

>(fed up of whinges on this subject - why not whinge at the lack of a
fileserver
>that works via serial for GNU instead?)

OK... Why oh why isn't there a GNU fileserver?

I'm fed up of these CW arguments as well, as I can never decide which side
I'm on ;-)

Mark