Purify Quotes
"Purify is a great tool. It has saved my butt many a
time. I use it weekly. I don't know what your other tools are...
if they're half as useful as Purify, I
will definitely be interested."
"Purify has become a part of my general debugging routines.
This by far is one of the best products I have ever used in my
10+ years of finding memory problems."
John Laurence
Integraph Electronics
"At the risk of sounding overzealous, Purify is one
of the most impressive and effective tools I've ever used. We
also have Quantify, which is equally impressive."
"Your products (Purify /PureCoverage) are great. I am
one of those who hates reading manuals and I found that I could
just get going with your tools with much ease. Purify has helped
me discover problem areas which passed code inspection and unit
testing! As part of our process, we are required to include Purify
and PureCoverage results as part of the unit test results."
"Comments? Well, everyone that has used Purify thinks
it's the greatest (most useful) tool they've ever seen, and some
of them are currently stuck on Windows NT are wishing it ran there."
Stuart Williams
Alberta Research Council
"...Purify really is all that it's cracked up to be.
In our first few days' experience with it, we've found and fixed
numerous bugs in three or four packages of ours in different stages
of development (some under active development, some pretty new
but considered finished, some that have been out as products for
several years).
Some of the bugs we found in old code are no doubt responsible
for some very rare but troublesome core dumps we've gotten on
occasion but have never been able to reproduce reliably. Other
bugs were more benign, but it's good to have them fixed.
Congratulations on a top-quality product."
Peter Shenkin
Assoc. Research Scientist, Columbia University
"We caught bugs in software we licensed from a third
party-Great stuff!"
Chris Rokusek
Quad Design Technology Inc.
"It's great so far- day 2 of using it and I've already
found a number of bugs I'd missed."
Tim Monks
BHP Research-Melbourne Labs
"I've been using Purify for the past couple of weeks
and have been very impressed. For applications that run for long
periods of time (like daemons and shells) it is very important
to release all dynamically allocated memory. Purify has helped
me to develop cleaner software. I normally use Purify on a daily
basis, and have found its interface to be excellent."
Michael Karo
Cray Research, Inc.
"Well, given that I hadn't used Purify previous to my
experience here...it is an amazing product. It was extraordinarily
easy for me to set up in my makefile, and use despite being entirely
blind to the product. I am not usually one to compliment products,
but this one does exactly what it intends to do and well. Even
though I have only used this product for one week, I find I have
already become dependent on it, not only for tightening my code,
but almost as a debugger.
Any serious developer needs to use such a tool, especially
now that C++ classes are potential nightmares for memory leakage...again,
congratulations and thanks for such a useful tool."
Chris Butler
Orpheus Design, Inc.
"Ever since I found out about Purify, I've been a major
supporter of it. I've tried Sentinel, too, but it's slower. Since
then I've formed my own company and do contract work for others
and recommend Purify. I recommended Purify here before day 1,
at the interview for the contract. Purify scores really high here."
Stephen Kellett
British Telecom Labs
"I use Purify about 1-2 times per week. What an EXCELLENT
tool! I am trying to get some bugs corrected in preparation for
a beta-release of software, and believe me-your product is a life-saver!"
Donald Smith
Lexis-Nexis, Inc.
"Great installation program. Took only about 20 minutes
to have Purify up and running. The interface is intuitive and
clean. Overall, the program looks great."
Dan Fitzgerald
Science Applications International Corp.
"It was easy to incorporate when we hit a major problem
in our application. With several third party libraries in use
it's almost impossible to debug calls to their software, and Purify
immediately gave us much more information to send to support,
and got us up and running much sooner."
T.M. Bernath
Technical Resource Connection
"...thanks for bringing to the development community
a product as indispensable as Purify."
Matthew Messana
CICNet, Inc.
"An excellent product! Does exactly what I need with
a clean, easy-to-use user interface. I wish there were more UNIX
programs like this out there."
"Great product, in general. It's _extremely_ easy to
use and find exactly where the memory's leaking, or the code's
writing out of bounds, etc."
Daniel Suman
The NetMarket Co.
"Purify is one of the best UNIX development tools I
have ever seen."
Roger Kutchaver
Salomon Brothers
"Great job! I just installed it and it already saved
me a couple of hours of work!"
"Great software, although it shows too well our human
limitations and how easy it is to write bugs."
"Your tools have saved me a lot of bug hunting time,
and even more so, have found bugs that I never would have in my
normal testing routines.
Thank you very much."
David A Carley
University of Wisconsin
"Thank you very much for a very wonderful tool. You
have helped boost the quality of a LOT of software out there greatly."
Sheldon Young
Facet Decision Systems Inc.
"Keep up the good work. It took me less than 2 hours
to find the manuals, build the software with Purify, run it a
time or two, and find & fix a nasty FMR bug. That speaks well
both for your manual and the general usability of the product!"
Tim Bell
Sherpa Corporation
"Great product-Purify has saved me time and headaches-especially
for someone leaving the MS Windows world of many development tools,
to one (UNIX) which seems to have a paucity of such-I'll have
to try your Quantify next."
Don Milotte
Cabletron Systems Inc.
"All Pure products that I've encountered are very innovative
and extremely useful products for programmers. I would highly
recommend them to my colleagues, friends, etc."
William Fung
CS First Boston Corporation
"I am extremely pleased with the quality and thoughtfulness
in design of Pure's products in general."
Tom Davis
TLW Securities, Inc.
"Anyone here who has used Pure Software's products just
falls in love with them. Purify has saved me many hours of tedious
debugging. Thanks."
Marilyn J. Mix
Century Computing, Inc.
"Not joking, I think this is one of the best products
I've seen for a long time. "Best" means useful and not
X-plenty."
Alvaro Paricio Garcia
Telefonica I+D
"Terrific product- the very first time I used it, I
found where (and why) my program had been core dumping. I'm making
Purify a regular part of my development process..."
Michael Heaney
Institute for Genomic Research
"Purify has become a part of my daily development ...
an invaluable tool in shortening my development cycle."
Paul J. Mauschbaugh
Caterpillar, Inc.
"It is a very good tool that gets bugs identified early
and improves code quality. Thanks."
Sandeep Bhatia
CrossCheck Technology Inc.
"I am really impressed by Purify! I am planning to use
it on a regular basis now."
Yogesh Wagle
Bellsouth Telecommunications
"Great products! Please keep up the good work. Purify
and Quantify have saved me many, many hours of work!"
David Mendes
Evolving Systems
"I am very impressed with the quality, ease of use,
look and feel of both Purify and Quantify. All software should
be this good!"
William L. Myers
MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation
"Your software is remarkably easy to use, especially
when compared with most software for Suns."
Henry Rabinowitz
NYNEX Science & Technology
"Purify is a most excellent product, dude!"
Joe Carvalho
International Research Institute
"Excellent tool, without it we would be doomed (core
files take a lot of disk-space..")
Thomas Wikman
ABB Robotics Products
"I'd give my left kidney for Purify on a BSD based UNIX
system running on the Intel platform..."
Warner Losh
Cyberspace Development Inc.
"Purify is a fantastic product. The viewer GUI makes
a quick visual scan for memory problems even easier than in previous
versions."
Franklin Chen
Applied Dynamics International
"Today is the first time I've used Purify. It is simple
to use and found a memory leak and an uninitialized variable on my first
program. Good Stuff!"
Daniel D. Kary
Hewlett-Packard Co.
"I work with C++, using the Softbench environment for
HP. I LOVE Purify, which I find extremely convenient and user-friendly.
I often use it as a "pre-debugger", in the sense that
whenever my output is supposedly wrong, I start Purifying my software
before using the dde-debugger. Sometimes I can discover horrible
mistakes through that means."
Yves Dubois-Pelerin
Joint Research Center of the European Communities
"This is a great product. I like it."
Chester Chee
Instinet Corporation
"Purify is invaluable in tracking down memory allocation
errors, and is one of the best products I have ever used (and
one of the easiest to learn to use)."
Brian Bliss
Convex Computer Corp
"I have enjoyed using Purify greatly. Thanks for supplying
such a wonderful product."
"Purify was tested and found to be a great tool to verify
code. I found two major bugs which were NOT found by any other
debugging tool. It's easy to use and self-explanatory."
Jack Adams
ASM Lithography
"Purify 3.0 is an excellent tool. The GUI interface
and PureCoverage are remarkably easy to use. I would like to see
Purify for PC Windows environment."
Ram Kumar
Bellsouth Telecommunications
"I've been using Purify for about 1 hour and already
it has been a huge help. Thanks!"
Nicola Place
National Australia Bank
"Purify somehow is able to find bugs other tools do
not find. "
Krist Roginski
Silicon Graphics Inc.
"Very useful and informative software. I wish I had
it when I was first learning to program."
Robert Foster
Mid-Michigan MRI, Inc.
"I am a new user of Purify and am thoroughly impressed
by the software. It saves me a lot of debugging time."
Natesan Venkateswaran
University of Cincinnati, ECE/CS Dept.
"First came compilers, then debuggers, and now Purify!
When will you have something to write my programs for me that
doesn't drink coffee all day long?"
Neville Ramsey
Royal Observatory Edinburgh
"I would like to complement you on your new version
of Purify. It is easy to use and easy to understand. It is merciless
and scrutinous and opens your eyes to your coding errors. Thanks
again! Yours faithfully,
Michael Oscarsson."
Ericsson Telecom AB
"So far Purify has saved me a bundle of hide-and-seek
minutes and hours! Thanks for making it all possible!"
Karl Eggestad
SINTEF Industrial Mathematics
"The UI is great. Very intuitive. Actually the whole
program was great. After I used it to find my first bug, I knew
that I would recommend this to the engineers in my group. I proceeded
to fix 14 more bugs that morning; one of the highest productivity
days for me during my programming career."
Pamela Chan
Silicon Graphics Inc.
"I just wanted to tell you how glad I am (and I'm sure
many others here and elsewhere) that you have ported to SGI. I
am one of the crack debuggers here and with the help of Purify
I can find virtually any bug regardless of the origin of the code.
Just now I have used Purify to nail a simple error immediately.
This type of bug could have taken an entire day to track down
depending on the approach used. With Purify I am always confident
of the output and can find bugs faster. Purify is somewhat of
a litmus test of good code and I use it liberally. Thanks for
making my life so much easier."
Matthew Putegnat
Varimetrix
"With Purify you have a powerful tool to find unsuspected
errors and those ones that take a lot of time and headaches."
Mariola Prieto
Telefonica I+D
"Purify is a great product and has saved our group countless
hours in debugging time."
Kevin Cureton
Rice University
"I love the graphical Purify we are using here...Purify
has made my code 100% better-I love it!"
Cassie Weissert
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
"Purify has been the best tool for its purpose that
I have ever used. It has helped save countless hours of debugging
complicated code. Thanks for a good product."
"Excellent product- saves me a ton of time in chasing
application cores."
Rich Schmidt
Cabletron Systems Inc.
"This is a great product! It took less than 5 minutes
of using it (including compile/link time) to find a bug!"
"Very nice product. I can't think of any real improvements
that you need to make. We evaluated you against TestCenter and
you beat them hands-down."
Stefan H. King
Hitachi Telecom Inc.
"Purify is one of the most useful software development
tools I have ever used. It is an excellent product and one that
I now wonder how I ever lived without!"
"We are very impressed with this product. I have only
used it for a couple of days, but I can't imagine writing C code
without it."
Khandra D. Howard
Motorola GSTG
"Just the usual - it's a brilliant product and when
I return to my Australian company I will be highly recommending
it. It has already highlighted several problem areas in my application
code which I suspect would never have been noticed otherwise.
Congratulations on a wonderful product!"
Paul Helm
STC Submarine Systems Ltd.
"Great stuff. There has been many a time that Purify
has saved me hours if not days in pinpointing memory core problems."
Telsin Brower
Legent Corp/Networx Inc.
"Can't live without Purify. You guys are incredible!
I'll always stand by my Purify. NEVER saw a product which is more
robust and useful for software development. Except PureLink."
Valery Polyakov
Schlumberger Well Services
"What they say is true. Within 30 minutes of installing
your software, I fixed several memory problems not only which
I didn't know existed, but which would have been almost impossible
to find if I had. From now on, I'm using Purify as a matter of
practice."
David Sundstrom
KLA Instruments Corporation
"There is nothing that approaches your product, it's
just incredible!!"
Roland King
CIBC Wood Gundy
"Purify has been a great help to me by finding the makings
of several subtle bugs before they turned into a released problem;
I appreciate having the tool available."
Joseph W. Ruffles
Acuson Computed Sonography
"Purify takes all the art out of debugging segmentation
violations and bus errors in C. Future generations of programmers
will simply not grasp what it's like to spend time debugging memory
overruns prior to its advent. For the first time in my life, I
truly feel like a dinosaur."
Krishna Sethuraman
Silicon Graphics Inc.
"Management has purchased many 'productivity' tools.
Purify is the only one that has benefited the project and is the
only one of those purchased for this project that I will recommend
to future customers."
John D. Crabtree
US West Communications Inc.
"I require people working on my project teams to use
Purify. Along with our designing for reuse, I consider our use
of Purify responsible for allowing our software to be easily integrated
and reused. By the way, I also really like the 'simple licensing'
arrangement; how many times have I seen mis-configured or temporarily
down license servers that cause things to skid to a halt. "
Gary Bisaga
MITRE Corporation
"We have been using Purify for over a year now. Our
first license paid for itself the first 20 minutes after we installed
it!"
Paul Solomon
Systems Software Associates, Inc.
"I found your product extremely easy to use and a valuable
time saver. Within an hour, I found the source of a segmentation
fault that I'd been searching for for over a day, without success.
Great product, one of the most useful tools I've come across."
Glenn Rodbarry
NationsBanc-CRT
"I love Purify. Without it, our effort could have gone
to dogs by now. I really mean it. After a while, its not shoddy
coding that causes problems; its the sheer size of an application
that brings in so many degrees of freedom that cannot be thought
of beforehand. Purify shines a beam of light on those dark corners
which escaped scrutiny during the design phase."
Vijaya Raghavan
Qualtech Systems Inc.
"I used Purify in my previous job too (4 years doing
C on Sun) and found it an absolute god send."
Robert Verran
Rolfe & Nolan PLC
"Absolutely awesome product. Its a Must for every serious
development environment."
"My productivity doubled after I started using (your
software). Well done, Pure Software!"
Ari Luotonen
Worldwide Web Project/CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
"....UNIX users may finally start to get work done instead
of trying to get things to work. Thanks."
Dan Griffith
Motorola ASIC Division
"We have learned over time that anything from Pure Software
is going to be good."
Phil Herlihy
British Telecom
"It seems that anybody who has used Purify thinks it's
the best thing since sliced bread....and it is."
Simon McClenahan
Cray Supercomputing
"It's not often you find software that does exactly
what it promises...there can't be a better recommendation."
"Best piece of support code for C programmers that money
can buy."
D. Subramami
University of Newcastle, UK
"....Purify....is God's gift to programmers..."
Chris Vople
GE Corporate R&D
"We've been using Purify for over 2 years now and are
very satisfied with the uncountable man-hours of debugging it
has relieved us of."
William Tucker
UNIKIX Technologies
"I love the GUI that you added to Purify 3.0. It is
a power tool that helps me cut through the toughest legacy code
easily."
"This is one of the most useful products I have ever
used. Not only is it technically sound, but the user interface
rivals that of the MacOS. This is something you usually don't
see in the UNIX environment. Thanks for saving me weeks of debug
time."
Jim Sepe
Walt Disney Feature Animation
"It could be a little faster and easier on memory and
disk but I appreciate it anyway...this is the price we pay to
get all the cool capabilities Purify offers. Its been invaluable
to me in the cases I've used it with several applications from
major software developers."
Ed Millard
Silicon Graphics Inc.
" Purify... is the best leak detection/memory overwrite
type tool I have ever seen."
Alex Fiore
Informix Software
"I just used Purify to solve another of my problems,
once again you guys have come through for me and I appreciate
it. I will never develop code on a platform that you don't support."
"Great product! So far the best of class."
"The product is working well with our large application
(approx. 600,000 lines of c++). It has already pointed out at
least two potential problems. The new Beta copy has fixed an original
problem I had and installation was very easy with the instructions
provided."
Fred Eckmair
WSI Corporation
"I was looking for a tool to monitor the heap while
my program was running...I guess I found it!"
Gerd Pfeifer
Soft Adweis AG
"I like the ease of use of this tool. It is easy enough
that I can use it a lot."
Tom McReynolds
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
"Good product, easy to set up and use!"
Joost van den Hoven
Compuware/Uniface Tech. B.V.
"I just started using Purify, and so far it seems great!"
Benny Johnson
Q-Chem Inc.
"I like the window based version of Purify. It helps
stepping through the messages much easier as well as suppressing
those that are not needed."
"Would be nice to have Purify on AIX, it's a fantastic
product."
Hammad Azzam
GTE Labs Inc.
"Purify is a great tool. During our integration tests
of our products we run every module and executable through Purify."
Dr. Bertram Karch
Sofbid GmbH
"Purify has helped me find many a bug. It would be hard
to debug without it."
Chuck Clark
International TechneGroup, Inc.
"I am currently using the evaluation version of Purify.
Looks so far like a marvelous product!"
Jeffery Sumler
Indiana University
"I used to use Purify a lot while in France, but this
is the first time I'm using the version that supports DCE. It's
come a long way since I used it last...I can say so far so good.
We've waited a long time for this so as to clean up our code."
Julian Anigbogu
Schlumberger Austin Systems Center
"The new X based version of Purify is very nice indeed...I'm
quite happy about that."
Ally Hume
University of Edinburgh
"Great product!"
Marco Guzman
Latitude Group
"Let me tell you, we are using Purify at our testcenter
now for 8 months with really great success. We detected many bugs
in our various applications."
Anton Hirner
Siemens Nixdorf AG
"I have been using Purify for 3 years now and I think
it represents one of the best tools for locating bugs in programs
that I have used. I really am very impressed."
Andy Farlie
Infinity Financial Technology, Inc.
"I like your software very much. It was easy to learn
how to use, and it was a benefit from the start. I like your product
and hope to see some of your other products here where I work.
The points that impressed me the most were the simple interface
and how easily I could add it to my project."
Christopher Wolf
Michigan Tech University
"I was glad to find that Purify has much improved over
earlier versions I've used. The GUI interface is great. Well done."
Simon Waddington
Wind River Systems, Inc.