[Coco] Fooling around with assembly in RS-DOS environment

[Dave Philipsen]

I would agree with you on that.  I have used IDEs with built-in 
debuggers and such and once you get used to writing code for a specific 
platform/processor you can probably debug with your own tools more quickly.


Dave


On 4/10/2016 10:40 PM, Mark McDougall wrote:
>
> In my personal opinion, integrated IDE's that supposedly make your 
> life easier are of very limited benefit to a seasoned developer, 
> regardless of platform. Pressing <UP><UP><ENTER> twice, once to build 
> and once to run MESS is not exactly taxing, and ultimately more 
> flexible and customisable.
>
> It's doubly true in my case, because I develop for multiple retro 
> platforms, and use the ASXXXX assemblers for all of them. My entire 
> development environment is identical then for each of them, which is a 
> definite productivity boost.
>
> I'm sure plenty disagree, and you may even be one of them.
>
> Regards,
>