Re: gcc vs anything else

[Nathan J. Williams]

Kenneth Albanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 
> Well, let me pound on the other side of the ungulate for a moment: having
> a text-compilation based UI builder (PilRC) has some massive advantages
> over a visual one (MW Constructor), and I spent a lot of development time
> creating such an environment for the Mac using Rez, back in the good ol'
> days.

        No argument from me. But there are applications for both and
the free development world just doesn't have the visual option. 

> Put another way: it's not very easy to use macros and manifest constants
> in Constructor.

        Mmph. I've mentally refiled all preprocessor tricks under
"terrible abomination" from "neat or useful hacks" after doing a stint
developing automatic semantic analyzers, as well as developing in
languages that aren't C. I suppose the rest of the C-programming world
disagrees with me, though.

        - Nathan