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[Banter] What is the worst software you have used for its price?
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rsjsouza:

--- Quote from: joeqsmith on May 29, 2022, 11:55:56 pm ---"... not praise it."
I think I still have the manual still on my bookshelf for Xtree Gold.   Didn't they change something in the Gold version that screwed up the secrete sauce? 
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Since you mentioned it, I vaguely recall something on the "Gold" version that my dad disliked and I loved, as it was the default behaviour in my beloved PCTools (that stupid Norton killed it) - pergaps it was something related to the way the disks were scanned? My memory fails me...


--- Quote from: joeqsmith on May 29, 2022, 11:55:56 pm ---Thinking about their UI, back in those early days, I was writing my .COM programs in assembler and later in C.
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My dad was an x86 assembly wiz and taught me enough for me to venture into this as well. Amazing what one could do with up to 32kB of binary executable (the limit of a .COM executable). Good times.

My dad's source code listings were more than 1MB (with comments, of course) - all that was crunched into a mere ~20kB. He loved kedit as his coding platform.
snarkysparky:
Siemens step7  PLC software.   It is simply unfinished software.  The engineers got it to where *they* could use it and called it done.
You literally have to open some screens and write down obscure numbers and take that back to another screen and type it into a box.

Also hate labview VI programming.   It's all good if you got finished blocks to tie together but if you need to create your own logic is sucks.

These are programs I like

LTSpice
Handbrake
SumatraPDF
Octave
Freemat
speedcrunch
avidemux
tinycad
Librecad
notepad++
sharpdevelop
audacity
irfanview
diptrace

tom66:

--- Quote from: neil555 on May 28, 2022, 01:18:31 pm ---Linux (any version)
GCC (has to be the worst compiler ever)
Xilinx ISE
Anything by Adobe

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GCC is bad?  Man, you must not have used XC8.  I reported at least four different bugs in that compiler that literally produced garbage code.

GCC is actually a very good compiler;  but it suffers from trying to do everything (every architecture, hundreds of optimisations, multiple languages.)  This makes it very bloated, but I think it's preferable to having something useless.  The linker toolchains are byzantine and tricky to understand for cross-compilation, but I got there eventually.  It's one of those things that's poorly documented and a bit of the blind leading the blind.
Zero999:

--- Quote from: tom66 on June 01, 2022, 12:46:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: neil555 on May 28, 2022, 01:18:31 pm ---Linux (any version)
GCC (has to be the worst compiler ever)
Xilinx ISE
Anything by Adobe

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GCC is bad?  Man, you must not have used XC8.  I reported at least four different bugs in that compiler that literally produced garbage code.
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PICs, especially the baseline devices are a complete turd to program. It's truly amazing any compiler works.
madires:
Please choose the one you dislike:
( ) Emacs
( ) vi
 ;D
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