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From: dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Lattice/SAS C
Message-ID: <12911@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 29 Aug 90 16:07:57 GMT
References: <113@stbimbo.UUCP>
Reply-To: dylan@june.cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee)
Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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In article <113@stbimbo.UUCP> jer@stbimbo.UUCP (John Ramspott) writes:
>I have been a little disturbed over some of the Lattice/SAS flaming going on.

Me too.  I just ordered my 5.10 yesterday.  Lattice has a great product,
well documented, frequently updated with copious improvements and features
added at almost every turn.  I agree with John that without this compiler,
the Amiga wouldn't be where it is.  But the competition with Manx helped
matters immensely.  (Lattice C was pretty poor before Aztec came on the 
scene.)

As for the $2/minute fee.  I think that's fine (or even cheap) for
being able to talk to a competent Human about problems.  However, those
of us on Usenet have 1000's of competent people to ask questions of.
For things like patches to fix bugs and all (like the 5.02->5.04 upgrade)
charging that much is pretty scary.  Especially in the 5.02 case, where
there were copies of 5.02 that broke the patch.  At 2400 baud, $2/minute
get's mighty expensive.

>
>OK, now the bad news. There is one thing that Lattice has done that needs to
>be fixed. They have not supported their C++ compiler!!! Hello SAS? Do you

When I ordered, I asked the person on the phone (Diane Gomez) about the
new C++.  She distinctly said 2nd quarter '91.  So now they're talking
about it.  It will be good.

dylan