6 Aug
2020
6 Aug
'20
10:09 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 11:47:09AM -0400, Paul Winalski wrote:
On 8/5/20, Adam Thornton <athornton(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
That's funny, I was just talking to my older son yesterday. We had the
chat about how much you could get done in a semester in college, a buddy
and I did about 80% of an Ada compiler. It was a lot. I told my kid
that industry is different, it moves way slower and that is because
there is a huge difference between something you get done in a few months
and throw away and something that you are going to hand off to users.
Error handling and messages matter a lot. Backwards compatibility
matters a lot.
Isn't Adam working on v7? If so, not so great error messages are
sort of understood, it was early times. They got better.
$ cc -o 4th forth.c
ld:forth.o: Local symbol botch
I hate error messages like that. Would it have been that much extra
trouble for ld to tell you which symbol caused the problem?