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From: daniel@avsd.UUCP (Daniel Edelson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ for DOS/OS2
Keywords: C++ DOS OS/2
Message-ID: <2054@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 89 18:27:17 GMT
References: <293@softeng1.UUCP> <9081@saturn.ucsc.edu> <6492@columbia.edu>
Reply-To: daniel@avsd.UUCP (Daniel Edelson)
Organization: AMPEX Corporation, Redwood City, CA
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In article <6492@columbia.edu> kearns@read.UUCP () writes:
>
>I would recommend AGAINST going with Zortech...
>
>The best product I have found is the Glockespiel 1.2E1 version of the
>AT&T translator.... built ontop of the microsoft C5.1 compiler.
>-steve

Being able to use the Microsoft libraries is an advantage, in fact
a compelling one for us because we use Informix' C-ISAM product,
which requires the Microsoft *4.0* libraries. However another two
advantages to the Zortech product over the Glockenspiel/Microsoft
route are 1) the price, and 2) the fact that the Glockenspiel linker
has about 127 significant characters in identifiers while Microsoft
supports 31. We use grossly long identifier names that differ only in 
the last few characters, and these are nested 3 or 4 classes deep.
31 Character identifiers created a real headache for us, requiring a
preprocessing stage before compilation to shorten identifiers using 
sed.

daniel edelson
daniel@saturn.ucsc.edu