[nycbug-talk] hand wringing

[Pete Wright]

Bob Ippolito wrote:

> On May 2, 2004, at 9:16 PM, Pete Wright wrote:
>
>> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>
>>>
>> that's really interesting, i spend most of my time being a sys admin 
>> and have always had problems debugging running systems on Win32 
>> compared to unix.  that is obviously coming from a different 
>> perspective than a programmer tho...
>
>
> That's something else entirely.  I'm not even sure I would call it 
> debugging, but I can't think of a better word for it right now.

heh...how 'bout banging head against wall ;)

>
>>
>> yea no wonder so many people use QT etc...
>
>
> Which works perfectly well with many different compilers, including 
> both MSVC and GCC, so obviously they aren't using the kind of magic I 
> was talking about.  What's your point?


none...sorry thinking outloud.

>
> I highly doubt that Apple is going to license a compiler from anyone 
> given the effort that they have put into GCC.  However, you can set up 
> an Xcode project that uses an alternative compiler or different build 
> process.  XL is IBM's compiler, by the way.  It is pretty badass (but 
> expensive) for ppc64.

cool i'll have to check that out.  i don't know much about coding on 
osX...yet ;)


-pete