Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!tdatirv!sarima
From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ considered ready to face the world?
Message-ID: <103@tdatirv.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 91 00:24:12 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.085547.910@ithaca.uucp>
Reply-To: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Organization: Teradata Corp., Irvine
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In article <1991Jan24.085547.910@ithaca.uucp> garry@ithaca.uucp (Garry Wiegand) writes:
 
>I have been listening to the discussion about g++ and I am feeling
>nervous: do people believe that C++ is mature enough now to really
>face the world?

Yes, I think so.  The main problem with g++ right now is that it is not
really compatible with the 'standard' (i.e. the Annotated Reference Manual).
I suspect that this will change very quickly.
> 
>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? 

Most of these are available right now.  Both Zortech and Turbo C++ are
excellent products.  Zortech is 'non-standard' only in its lack of the
modern streamio interface.  All versions of Unix have one or more versions
of C++ available, either cfront from ATT, or some clone thereof.
Does anyone know, is there a Mac version of C++ yet?

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