[Simh] How do we test the emulators?

Peter Lund firefly at vax64.dk
Tue Sep 18 18:34:49 EDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 14:58 -0700, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> > My preference would be C for some kinds of tests and Perl or Python for
> > the rest.  Perl code can actually be very readable :)
> 
> That really depends on who is writing the Perl code.

It certainly does.
'use warnings;' and 'use strict;' and function prototypes help a lot.
Abstaining from most of the linenoise characters also help ;)

>   Just stay away from
> oddball perl modules, and tying the code to a specific version of Perl.

I don't think any modules would be necessary and the only recentish
thing I need support for is 'use warnings;'.

-Peter




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