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- From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
- Subject: Re: Zortech C++ - Comments? -
- Message-ID: <swdnt#=.nagle@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 17:13:02 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Aug26.125216.164404@dstos3.dsto.gov.au> <vwbn6_a.nagle@netcom.com> <PHILS.92Aug27094110@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- phils@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Phil Shapiro) writes:
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- >In article <vwbn6_a.nagle@netcom.com> nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
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- > Don't. You'll be sorry. The Zortech C++ product for Intel CPUs is
- > good, but the 68000 code generator was botched, and the Mac product is
- > lousy. I am a very unhappy owner of this product. I finally had to buy
- > Apple's MPW C/C++ compiler.
-
- >While it's true that the original 2.1 release of Zortech C++ for MPW
- >was buggy, Symantec released a 2.1.3 version that fixed many of the
- >bugs not long after the acquisition of Zortech. There haven't been any
- >Mac releases since then (2.1.3 was released less than a year ago), but
- >a lot of work is being done on it.
-
- The 2.1.3 release came about a year after the original release, by
- which time I (and almost everyone else) had abandoned the product.
- It's still a very basic compiler; no 68020/30/40 support, no math coprocessor
- support, problems working with the new MacApp. And I haven't seen any non-
- Symantec employees saying anything good about it.
-
- Yes, the global optimizer is very impressive. But the product as
- a whole is still a lemon.
-
- John Nagle
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