Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!orca.wv.tek.com!pogo!bluneski From: bluneski@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Bob Luneski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: DICE Message-ID: <9190@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> Date: 7 Jun 90 19:34:12 GMT References: <3877@moondance.cs.uq.oz.au> <1990Jun7.112334.28159@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Reply-To: bluneski@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Bob Luneski) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR. Lines: 19 In article <1990Jun7.112334.28159@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >I'm _thrilled_ to learn that Matt's compiler will come out in a commercial >version (and, from a previous posting, a robust version), since Lattice and >Manx desperately need a good example of what a bug free compiler looks like >to force a little QA on them. > I'm also VERY happy to see it as a commercial product. I believe there is room for three players in the Amiga C compiler game. However, there some significant deficincies that make it's current evolution totally unacceptable for serious commercial development purposes. Don't you think you should hold the: "it's the next best thing to sliced bread completely bug free" praise untill it's been released and let the market determine just how true that statement is? I belive you are also forgetting the value of post purchase user support which has not been demonstrated at the commercial level for DICE. A professional developer happy with Lattice, interested in Dice, but cautious, Bob Luneski