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                        I'm surprised it's still around
                                        
It's been awhile since the last VS_O2 [1] update. So why not?

I'm checking up on the forum and I come across this thread [2] about a BASIC
compiler for VS_O2. This sums it up pretty well:

> Well C programmers have survived for years with a minumum of runtime error
> handling so I think it would be fine for your compiler to not worry about
> it either.
> 
> It just puts a burden on the programmer to check for things like being out
> of array bounds and such.
> 

Shudder.

[1] http://www.v2os.cx/
[2] http://www.v2.nl/~joost/Forum2/HTML/000157.html

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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