On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 11:30 pm, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 08/12/2016 05:07 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> The first time I ever compiled a full-sized application (not a particular >> large one either, it was a text editor a little more featureful than >> Notepad) it took something like nine hours to compile on a Mac SE (this >> was circa 1990). How mad would I have been if, eight hours and thirty >> minutes into the compilation, the compiler suddenly stopped with an error >> caused by a mistyped variable name? > > Surely this application was built using a build system, even back then, > that would allow compilation to resume and not rebuild object files that > were already built.
To be honest, I don't remember. It was so-called "Lightspeed Pascal", later renamed "Think Pascal", and especially after that experience I mostly used it for experimenting with Hypertalk XCMDs and XFNCs, which were much simpler as they weren't stand-alone GUI applications. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
