OT: on IDEs and code writing on steroids

[Daniel Keep]

Yigal Chripun wrote:
> Rainer Deyke wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> If you can read and write compatible library files, you don't need to
>> read or write compatible object files, since library files can take the
>> place of object files.
> 
> that's even better. just allow 2-way usage of C libs and that's it. no
> need to support the C object file formats directly.

Ummm... IIRC, an .a file is just an archive of .o files.  A .lib file in
Windows is something similar.

If you want to support C libraries, you need to support the object file
format as well.

  -- Daniel