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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ considered ready to face the world?
Message-ID: <27A07D98.F4B@tct.uucp>
Date: 25 Jan 91 18:48:56 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.085547.910@ithaca.uucp>
Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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According to garry@ithaca.uucp (Garry Wiegand):
>So I am getting ready to spec C++ as the language to be used for a
>large (about 100K lines w/o comments) new project here.

Our project is about a tenth of that in size.  G++ 1.37.1 seems to be
holding up well.

I feel much more secure about G++ than I would about a commercial C++
compiler, since compiler bugs can be fixed or not as I choose.

>To give some specifics, I can see that there will probably be
>"usable" real compilers available for PCs, Macs, and a majority of
>the workstations (dec, hp, apollo, sun, sg) in time for the porting
>phase of the project (9-12 months from now.) Am I right in this? 

Yup.  GCC 2.0 will include what is now called G++ (and Objective C as
well, if I am not mistaken).  No dates have been forthcoming from the
dudes in Boston, but I'd be very surprised if the first release isn't
available by summer.  And G++ 1.37.1 is available as a backup.

And of course there are the commercial compilers; you'll need to buy
at least two for the MS-DOS and Macintosh environments, and any CPUs
not supported by GNU compilers can be covered that way.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
 "I want to mention that my opinions whether real or not are MY opinions."
             -- the inevitable William "Billy" Steinmetz