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From: don@zardoz.coral.com (Don Dewar)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.help,comp.lang.c++
Subject: GNU g++ not ready for anything at all.
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) From: uunet!cse.ogi.edu!maxwebb (Max G. Webb)
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) Subject: GNU g++ not ready for anything at all.
) Summary: not suitable for any particular purpose.
) Keywords: Just say no.
) Date: 14 Jan 91 23:59:53 GMT
) References: <1991Jan10.202317.161@ee.ualberta.ca>
) Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
) Posted: Mon Jan 14 15:59:53 1991
) To: bug-g++@prep.ai.mit.edu
) 
) This may not be an appropriate message; oh well...
) 
) Just as a data point for everybody out there deciding whether
) to use g++: Last semester I wrote a neural net simulator in g++;
) I already had some experience in c++ (AT&Ts version), and in
) other OOPL's, and have been a programmer since '78.
) 
) My impression was that the bugginess of the implementation has
) *DOUBLED* my implementation time. Recent releases (37.1) only
) seem to add to my work, by failing to compile code that used to work.
) 
) So if you value your time (which it will waste), or your hair (which
) you will tear out), or your cool (which you will lose),
) go somewhere else. g++ will bring you mucho pain.
) 
) Max
) 

I have to refute this blasphemy.  I don't know what you were using g++ on,
but I have used g++ on SPARC and AViiON workstations, as well as using
CFront on the AViiON and Glockenspiel on 386/ix's.  When I was doing
my work on AViiON's, my group wrote a rather extenstive program using
CFront 2.0.  Because of some of the merits of g++ (namely gdb support for
g++), we decided to use g++ instead.  The port took about a day, and
we found minor descrepancies over the next week.  From there on in we
kept our code g++ and CFront compatible.  When I moved to my new
position, I took some C++ class that I had written for my own use on
the AViiON's with me to my new job.  Here we have SPARCstations.  I
got g++ from the distribution on uunet and built it along with any
other GNU stuff I needed.  My code compiled, linked and executed
cleanly with one minor exception, that took me an hour to figure out
and fix.  Frankly, I don't know what more you could ask.  Right now,
we have a large application that we have written with g++ and have run
into no major problems with g++.  What more can I say?

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