Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!saturn!sidney From: sidney@saturn.ucsc.edu (Sidney Markowitz ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: C++ compiler for ms-dos environment Message-ID: <10855@saturn.ucsc.edu> Date: 23 Feb 90 20:02:22 GMT References: <14468.25E40426@urchin.fidonet.org> Reply-To: sidney@saturn.ucsc.edu (Sidney Markowitz ) Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz Lines: 31 In article <14468.25E40426@urchin.fidonet.org> Bob.Stout@p6.f506.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Bob Stout) writes: >[...] Borland's >Turbo C 3.0 is supposed to be released in April which will also compile C++ >code, but here it is almost March and the beta copies still don't work >right - we'll see. [...] Just to set the record straight, Borland has not announced a release date for a new version of Turbo C, and has not announced any details about any new features in any particular new version. There was an article in PC Week that was supposedly based on information from a beta tester who violated the confidentiality agreement, but note that 1) beta copies can have bugs and/or performance characteristics and/or features that will not appear in the final product (that's why they are betas), 2) the existence of a beta does not imply all that much about the release date, since there are long and short beta cycles and early and late beta releases, and 3) even if Bob Stout has some inside information from a beta tester, you should realize that beta sites are not told when the final product will be released -- they are just given beta copies to test until the vendor decides that the product will ship. I am similarly skeptical about Bob Stout's claimed knowledge of unnanounced product schedules from MicroSoft, et. al. What *has* been made public is the various DOS language vendor's interest in object-oriented programming languages, and in particular C++. So I'm sure that it is just a matter of time before the major players are in the field. In the mean time, I would like to see less uninformed speculation disguised as hard facts. -- sidney markowitz