Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!percival!qiclab!m2xenix!randy
From: randy@m2xenix.UUCP (Randy Bush)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Is Zortech Out of Business?
Summary: No
Keywords: gossip rumors innuendo salt more salt
Message-ID: <171@m2xenix.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 88 05:20:02 GMT
References: <3792@midas.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: randy@m2xenix.UUCP (Randy Bush)
Organization: Oregon Software, Portland Oregon US
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In article <3792@midas.TEK.COM> kenw@midas.TEK.COM (Ken West) writes:
>I attended a C++ seminar last week given by the authors of a well
>known C++ book.  They said that Zortech was out of business for failing
>to pay for several adds in major magazines.  Has anybody heard anything
>about this?

How embarrassing _for them_.

Yes.  Walter bright is alive and well.  Zortech C++ is real, and is a true
compiler.  There is a new version of the compiler that works pretty darn
well.  Coworkers use it and like it.  Street rumor should be taken as just
that.  If we can keep the rumors down, WB will have time to make the
compiler even better, rather than having to combat gossip.

To those wanting C++ on MS-DOSe, one can safely recommend Zortech C++.
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{ mcvax!uunet!oresoft, tektronix!percival!qiclab } !m2xenix!randy  Randy Bush