Re: Is it too hard to program for the Apple?

[Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>]

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, D Finnigan wrote:

> Thanks to everyone's responses, I've decided to slow down, man up, and learn
> to program in C for the Apple IIe, and also hopefully learn more assembly as
> well.

Assembly is pretty fast, C is really slow.

I first ran it under OS-9 on the Radio Shack Color Computer about 1988, 
and I never got anywhere, since it just took forever to compile even the 
smallest programs.  It was the floppy disks as much as anything, and the 
fact that multiple passes were required to fit everything into the 
available RAM.

I never went anywhere with it, since simple errors caused multiple error
messages and it was so hard to fix something and then wait for another
compile.

I contrast that with when I did a bit of C programming on this 1GHz 
Pentium a couple of years ago.  A simple program was compiled almost 
instantly, you'd get that feedback right away.  It was like programming 
with BASIC in ROM, you could afford to make mistakes to learn by because 
the process was almost immediate.

  Michael