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From: jefu@pawl.rpi.edu (Jeffrey Putnam)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Zortech
Keywords: C++ a-la Zortech
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Date: 30 Jan 89 13:09:15 GMT
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Ok, i have been considering buying Zortech C++ and having been listening
to the flames and fun for a while want to ask a couple questions now that
things seem to have quieted down. 

Please respond by mail unless you feel a burning need to tell the world.
I will summarize and post results given sufficient interest and response.

1) How much does Zortech C++ cost?  Are there student discounts?  Discounts
for academics?

2) Does it link with Turbo C libraries?  
 
3) Does it do graphics?  I can live without most of the Turbo C libraries,
if it cant do them, but want at least minimal graphics for a Hercules board.
This would include initialization, draw_pixel, draw_line.

4) Is it solid?  That is, does it do a lot of flakey things that give trouble
and that they are fixing for the next release?

5) How well does it do the examples in the stroustrup book?  Will it handle
the complex numbers in particular?

6) What (if anything) is the upgrade policy?

7) Does it come with example code?   

8) How about utilities?


jeff putnam        -- "Sometimes one must attempt the impossible if only to
jefu@pawl.rpi.edu  --  show it is merely inadvisable."