Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!spies!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Lattice C++ Keywords: C++ Message-ID: <1991Jan18.120415.22068@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 18 Jan 91 12:04:15 GMT References: <2875@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 31 nfs1675@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil ( Michael S Figg) writes: > I know that the Lattice C++ package hasn't got great reviews in the > past, but at the present sale price of $150 is it worth the money for > a curious programmer with no C++ experience, but modest C experience. I'd wait. It is a port of the C++ 1.0 release, which is a long, long way from current C++ 2.1, and you really wouldn't be learning enough useful to do you good later. In addition, it is only a 25% discount off the dealer price I paid when the product first came out, which is hardly fair; at the far remove from current technology this package enjoys, it should be sold to recover the cost of materials, shipping and handling, probably well under $50. And, it really isn't a good stand alone package; though C++ 1.0 is supposed to be a completely upward compatible revision of C, and this package nominally comes with the 4.0 C compiler, they left out so much of the C stuff that you can't compile even crufty old rev. 3.6 C code with it, much less start with that and build in C++ functionality. On the other hand, Dave Haynie long ago reported doing some good work with it, so gather other opinions. > What has been said about possible SAS upgrades when they come up with > their package? No promises, another poster noted. Kent, the man from xanth.