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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!well!comeau
  3. From: comeau@csanta.attmail.com (Greg Comeau)
  4. Subject: Re: C++
  5. Message-ID: <C0F2A9.J6s@well.sf.ca.us>
  6. Originator: comeau@well.sf.ca.us
  7. Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
  8. Reply-To: comeau@csanta.attmail.com (Greg Comeau)
  9. Organization: Comeau Computing
  10. References: <S37732V.93Jan3122345@lk-hp-18.hut.fi> <1i88vfINN6nf@agate.berkeley.edu> <1i8a9aINN703@agate.berkeley.edu>
  11. Distribution: inet
  12. Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:08:33 GMT
  13. Lines: 27
  14.  
  15. In article <1i8a9aINN703@agate.berkeley.edu> cliffwd@soda.berkeley.edu (Cliff Draper) writes:
  16. >... I read further into my studies
  17. >of C++ and I wonder why the Amiga community hasn't switched over to this
  18. >"wonder" language.
  19.  
  20. There are a number of reasons ranging from migrations patterns to
  21. economics to learning curves to "support" by Commodore, etc.
  22.  
  23. >  I believe that a good amount of Amiga programmers are
  24. >either hacking in asm (to squeeze every gram of performance out of the
  25. >system) or in C.  I would like to see a greater emergence of people using
  26. >C++ and OOP.
  27.  
  28. Me too.  However, I prefer that folks have reason to do so and
  29. furthermore know why they are doing so.
  30.  
  31. >We need at least AT&T 2.1 compliance.
  32.  
  33. The since upgraded Comeau C++ 2.1 was the first 2.1 on any market going on
  34. some 3 years ago now, so, yeah, 2.1 at least!  For sure! ;-)
  35.  
  36. - Greg
  37. -- 
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