Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!infopiz!lupine!rfg From: rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: What C++ Compiler should I buy? Message-ID: <2711@lupine.NCD.COM> Date: 16 Nov 90 03:38:26 GMT References: <39546@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <17523@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <13154@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM> Organization: Network Computing Devices, Inc., Mt. View, CA Lines: 26 In article <13154@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM> vaughan@mcc.com (Paul Vaughan) writes: >I'd heard that AT&T had made or intends to make their library (or parts of >it) available as a separate product. Can anyone confirm/deny that? I can confirm that when I spoke with the AT&T product manager for cfront at the USENIX C++ Conference last April, he stated that he *was* going to make the library code that comes with cfront into a separate product so that if you had a brand X C++ compiler (or translator) you could just buy a licence for the AT&T libraries and *not* also be forced to pay for cfront itself. Better still, he said that his target price for the library was $. He mentioned a number for but I'd rather let AT&T tell you what number they ended up choosing. Anyway, since that was last April, I imagine that by now, AT&T is either doing it, or has decided never to do it. AT&T Software sales is at 1-800-828-UNIX. Be prepared to have somebody who speaks South Carolinian standing by on your end to interpret. :-) -- // Ron Guilmette - C++ Entomologist // Internet: rfg@ncd.com uucp: ...uunet!lupine!rfg // Motto: If it sticks, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.