home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!vnet.ibm.com
- From: ameline@vnet.ibm.com (Ian Ameline)
- Message-ID: <19920831.083849.307@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 11:17:17 EDT
- Subject: Re: C/2
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- References: <Aug.30.17.20.00.1992.11719@remus.rutgers.edu> <1992Aug31.031450.11031@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
- Organization: C-Set/2 Development, IBM Canada Lab.
- Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
- Lines: 23
-
- In article <1992Aug31.031450.11031@news.cs.brandeis.edu>,
- branham@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (Tom Branham, Biophysics Grad. Brandeis) writes:
- >
- >At the Windows & OS/2 conference here in Boston a couple of weeks ago now,
- >IBM stated that they were working on the C++ version and it should be
- >entering beta by the end of the year .....
- Hopefully well before then.
-
- >One of the Borland compiler
- >development team also stated that they were well aware of this as
- >they are ACTIVELY helping IBM to develop this compiler :)
-
- Hate to dissapoint you, but this is completely untrue. There has been
- no contact what ever between Borland and IBM's C++ Compiler development
- groups. We're in competition. (Which is good for you all -- we'll force
- each other to have lots of features, great performance and low prices)
-
- > ......Tom Branham
- >P.S> Should be something to look forward to , No? %)
-
- It sure is! (I'm actually looking forward to Borland's being available
- too. Competition is heathy)
- >
-