DOS ain't dead - The "million flies..." argument again?

The "million flies..." argument again? (DOSX)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 26.02.2008, 16:32

> 5. Seems that POASM supports only COFF for output (while FASM also
> supports MZ, PE, and "raw binary"), and POASM supports use32 only (besides
> xxx-64 and "ARM") (while FASM supports use16 also) :-(
>
> Very hard to avoid ^^^ conclusion that POASM sucks considerably more than
> FASM :lookaround:

Agreed. I'm not in the mood to defend this thing. It once was rather promising ...

> YES, but MASM also uses them ... the difference is that FASM has
> consistent rules for bracketing, while MASM seems not to have any ... of
> course I might be wrong again, but then many other people whining about
> the same thing would be wrong also :-P

"one million flies ..." :-D

But yes, I also sometimes see people complaining about MASM's "bracket rules". Usually these are ASM noobees (a rather annoying species IMO) who don't know the difference between a variable and the address of a variable.

> > It isn't "the compiler", but CygWin and MinGW want to provide a full
> > environment with shell, make, gcc and this other lunix crap.
>
> Executables coming from MinGW and CygWIN (need CYGWIN1.DLL - only 2 MiB)
> do work with HX :-) ...
>
> ... thus GCC/AS/LD do work also , just the "IDE" doesn't ? ;-)

Yes, but without the "IDE" it's impossible to MAKE a project.

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