Re: Why bother?

[Stephan Gross <1gross@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>]

Hi,

> How about everybody else, what do YOU use MiNT for?

Well, I study computer science and sometimes write small programs.
I recently programmed a SLR parser (in Common Lisp) and used 
bison to test my understanding of the grammar. 

So I needed a tool like bison and it is more easily ported to 
my ATARI with a MinixFS than without.

All my programs are under Revision Control, so I need a port of
yet another tool (POYAT).

To clarify my understanding of an alien C program I use indent,
so POYAT.

I use CLisp on the ATARI and Emacs to edit Lisp files, this is
more easily done on a MinixFS than on a TOS FS. And it is more 
comforatble to have two windows, one with Emacs and another with
CLisp, so I don`t have to quit and re-launch the programs steadily.
It would be *very* time consuming ;-).

> Okay, so you've got a UNIX type system running, but what about real
> world applications (things other than porting programs and getting
> them to compile). 

This *is* my real world application.

BTW, I use TeX and my word processors in Single-Task mode.


> p.s. anybody here using NETBSB?????
                             |
                          NetBSD ???

Ciao,
	Stephan Gross
	1gross@informatik.uni-hamburg.de