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From: bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Zortech C++ compatibility with existing graphics libraries
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Date: 1 Jan 89 00:37:05 GMT
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From Ted Holden, HT enterprises:
 
 
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From: rchen@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Ron Chen)
 
 
>I wish Zortech could generate (as an option) Turbo C compatible object code
>so I can link it with my Turbo C graphics libraries.  I consider it as a great
>drawback that Zortech is incompatible with any of the existing well known
>C compilers on MS-DOS.  Zortech is a good choice if you want to learn C++
>but it is too primitive to do anything real.
 
 
As I have stated once on USENET, Zortech C++ is totally compatible with the
Turbo C version of the MetaWindow/MetaGraphics library, reputed to be the
fastest and best of the DOS graphics libraries, and a $80 item from Programmers'
connection.  When you do one thing for a living, you tend to get good at it;
Metagraphics is being used for several X-11/PC projects, and it is a DAMNED
sight better than the standard Borland graphical system which comes with
Turbo C.  C++ applications I have written with classes of graphical creatures
which move accross the screen simultaneously require timing loops to slow the
action down for humans to follow easily.
 
Beyond any of this, the present version of Zortech C++, 1.07, handles all of
the examples in both Stroustrup's book and in the Pinson/Weiner book and is,
thus, regarded as a completely workable baseline.  There is no noticable
drop-off in speed of applications code from Turbo C;  brother, that's fast.
Zortech is presently hard at work on C++ tool libraries as well as on elegant
solutions to the problem of debugging object-oriented code.
 
I don't know what your definitions of primitive/serious are, but the Zortech
compiler strikes me as awfully serious and as a soon-to-be major player in
the DOS programming world and, hopefully, in the 386/486 desktop UNIX world
which is around the corner.
 
 
Ted Holden
HTE