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From: feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Zortech C++ compatibility with existing graphics libraries
Message-ID: <39129@clyde.ATT.COM>
Date: 6 Jan 89 15:29:34 GMT
References: <211@imspw6.UUCP> <39008@clyde.ATT.COM> <4457@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany NJ
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In article <4457@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>, toma@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
> In article <39008@clyde.ATT.COM> feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke) writes:
> >> From Ted Holden, HT enterprises:
> >> I don't know what your definitions of primitive/serious are, but the Zortech
> >
.> >I ordered an update to C++ from Zortech in October which was promised
.> >for late November.  This update was supposed to be compatible with
.> >MS Codeview.  Anybody else seen this yet?  I have received nada.
.> 
.> Well, when my copy of C++ came, the BUNCH.EXE program, which is supposed
.> to make it posible to use Codeview (except for local variables, of course),
.> was a *ZERO* length file.  Two phone calls later, they promised to send
.> out a disk with the program.  A disk arrived with a label which had penned
.> on it "Bunch.exe", but the disk contained only two mysterious .lib files.
.>  [deletions....] 
.
.> player" is via the steam roller effect C++ is having.  I found about a
.> dozen bugs, worse than any compiler I have used.  When I called with a
.>  [deletions....] 
.> The package also shows immaturity in that there are no C++ example programs
.> on disk, and the only provided class is "stream", which is not documented.
.
I understand Zortech is a British company.  My experience with them 
shows them to be unexpectedly inept.  When I first ordered the compiler
I also ordered the source code.  The compiler was shipped minus the
source code.  Seven weeks later and three phone calls finally
produced the source code.  Now it looks like they have lost my
order for the update.  From the report by Tom it appears I shouldn't
push too hard until they fix some more bugs.

   Forrest Gehrke