Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message 
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> On 2/9/2011 5:28 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote:
>> Which is why I asked my question. It seems so completely obvious to me,
>> that I can't understand that someone with a formal education in the
>> field wouldn't know about it.
>
> It works in the other direction too, you know. In a different
> message RB was complaining about how he has to provide installers
> for his compiler because his customers demand it. But it seems so
> completely obvious to me that this is how software packages are
> provided that I find it astonishing that anyone in the business
> of selling software would feel put upon to do so.

Only because the installer (until recently, anyway) doesn't actually do 
anything other than copy files. The person who I was corresponding with 
complained about complicated installations, and I generally agree with them. 
Most versions of Janus/Ada don't need any "installation" at all, just put 
the files somewhere, put them on the Path, and go. It seems like a huge 
waste of time to write a fancy program to do that (and try to figure out all 
of the permutations of setting the Path in Windows, for one example).

Like GUIs, it is necessary today, and I expect to spend the time to do it. 
That's no different than creating/updating documentation, another necessary 
task which adds almost nothing to what the user can do. But in both cases it 
is time that could have been spent on something else, something that would 
obviously add value to the customers (like new features).

                                    Randy.