[A83] Re: libraries


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[A83] Re: libraries




What general problems are there to solve?  You're talking about assembly
here.  There's no need for something like libc.  You have ROM calls for
basic things like text printing and math functions.  For everything else,
things are specific to the program.  This has been proven time and time
again.  On the 89, they could make sense, and programs did seem to make use
of libraries.  But it was also annoying to have to track down all the
libraries required for a certain program.  If you look at any of the
libraries for the 83 shells, you'll find that very few programs use them.
ION has some good built in functions, which seems to work fine.  Usgard on
the 85 originally had libraries, but no one liked them, so they ended up
taking them out.

Give us some things you'd like to put in a library, and we'll tell you why
it won't work.

> I think libraries would not be a bad idea....why do you think they suck so
> much? If the code was written general enough to solve many programming
> problems, what would be the disadvantages?





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