Serious applications

[A.C.T.]

Hi, Rob,

>> Productivity?
> 
> The following is not a rhetorical question: I asked this once before & 
> did not see an answer posted.
> 
> Does the CW, or any C debugger, debug at the source code level?
> 
> Can the C testing environment take you directly to the line of code 
> generating a runtime error? ...and let you change the offending code, 
> close the script, and continue testing without recompiling & relinking?

Depending on the environment you use: Yes, this is possible. We used SAS 
C for some years and it allows you to include line information in the 
object chunk. Since C is not an interpreted but a compiled language you 
always have to recompile, naturally.

And: C is not the only "choice". For prototyping or even for online 
applications, where speed isn't the major issue, I use PHP. Although it 
has its drawbacks I found it very productive - from the first hour I 
used it.

And: Again, I am sure that taking some time (depending on the 
intelligence available - I am dumb, unfortunately, I do not like to 
learn new things in general) Transcript must be the holy bible. I can 
not judge about it, currently (sic!) it is a closed book for me. That's 
all I am saying.

The question starting this thread was for "serious apps" - aside from 
this terminus not being "defined" I tried to express my own problems. I 
apologize that I sounded like attacking Transcript - I did not mean to, 
as you all noticed, I can not judge about Transcript.

Marc Albrecht
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