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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Actor vs C-Talk
Message-ID: <1989Nov27.133025.1340@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 27 Nov 89 13:30:25 GMT
References: <8390001@hpsgpa.HP.COM>
Reply-To: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Organization: The Whitewater Group, Evanston, IL
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In article <8390001@hpsgpa.HP.COM> plim@hpsgpa.HP.COM (Peter Lim) writes:
>
>I am thinking of doing personal software development on the MS Windows
>platform. After ploughing thru' the magazines, two software tools
>seems to stand out:  ACTOR and C-TALK. They are both OOPS. Now the question
>is which one should I get ?
>
Well, since I work for the company that writes Actor I would, of course, say
that you should buy Actor.  That's a biased opinion though.

I'm sending you our literature (or more specifically I'm having a sales dude
do it) but I'll address one question that you had right now.  You asked about
compatibility with Yacc.  We do provide a way for you to create your own
script language under Actor (it's not easy, but then YACC never is).  We even
have a YACC parser on our BBS and produces Actor code.  Neat stuff, eh?

To address another issue you had, we also plan to have an X-Windows version
some time in the future.  I'm not sure what time frame the C-Talk guys are
shooting for, but we are not sure of ours so I couldn't announce any general
times that we might have an X-Windows version.

-- 
"I place my faith in fools.  Self confidence, my friends call it."
					-Edgar Allen Poe

Patrick Deupree -> patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us