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- From: Steven Kearns <kearns@cts.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: stay away from rogue wave tools.h++
- Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1996 22:35:37 -0800
- Organization: Software Truth
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- CC: ellingso@roguewave.com
-
- I am a former member of the C++ standardization committee.
-
- With high hopes I purchased Tools.h++ from rogue wave for a recent project;
- I was disappointed both with the package, and the company (Rogue Wave)
- behind the package.
-
- Although the code appears reasonably well structured and tested, I did
- find one nettlesome bug, in only 2 weeks of working with it.
-
- More seriously, if you use the template classes that are part of the package,
- they do not provide any advanced ordered lists, such as a b-tree or skip list.
- They do provide these classes in untyped, smalltalk like form, but I would
- not recommend any c++ program use this inferior technology.
-
- The classes themselves are somewhat bare bones, opting for small and fast
- rather than full featured and fast.
-
- They also are pretty misleading in the ads, proclaiming multi-thread safe,
- when in fact they require you to ensure the multi-thread safety.
-
- The package was difficult to install because you have to compile it yourself
- based on the desired configuration and machine.
-
- Finally, the company lied to me when I purchased the program.
- A new sales person, Gary, told me that the next version of the program
- would be coming out in a month, and I would get the upgrade for free
- because I purchased the program within N days of the upgrade coming out.
- Later I found out that he was mistaken, but they refused to reimburse my
- company's money.
-
- Hope this was informative.
-
- -steve
-