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Date: 11 Jan 93 00:02:34 PST

> Beyond that, the rumor mill has been churning out stories of a Think C++
> standalone ever since Symantec bought Zortech. I would be VERY reluctant about
> going out to get MPW and either C++ compiler now given that there is a pretty
> good chance of a standalone Think C++ RSN. Not that MPW is so awful, but If you
> already have Think C, or even if you don't, it will almost certainly be cheaper
> and less demanding of hardware to wait for the Think C++


It ain't the rumor mill -- it's Symantec itself. The THINK C product manager
himself (when I asked recently at Macworld Expo) told me that the *only* thing
Symantec currently guarantees to be in v6.0 is a full C++ implementation. I
asked, "So is it in Beta now, or what?" He answered, "Sorry, I told you
everything that I'm allowed to say." I felt like a reporter during the Gulf
War. Every question I asked got this answer, except the first one about C++.
Steve Jasik (of Jasik's Debugger/Mac Nosy fame) recently updated (Octoberish)
his products to work with THINK C 6.0 project files, so I have a feeling they
may just be ironing out what features they're going to include with 6.0.

Andrew Francke