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From: wmmiller@cup.portal.com (William Michael Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Zortech C++ v2.0
Message-ID: <23455@cup.portal.com>
Date: 28 Oct 89 14:22:30 GMT
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The Zortech compiler is supposed to be released November 1, so I don't have
any direct experience with it.  It is supposed to be mostly 2.0 compliant;
the exceptions of which I am aware are that it does not implement pointers
to members, and it still does old-style overloading resolution.  I have
heard from at least one beta-tester for the product that the beta version 
was buggy, which is no surprise -- that's why you do beta testing, right?
I think it's going to be worth using, assuming that the bug rate is not
excessive and that bug fixes are available more quickly than they have been
recently (the early days of the version 1.0 compiler had very acceptable
bug fix turnaround, but this decayed, probably because of the time spent
on developing the 2.0 version).