jeanette@msdc.UUCP (Jeanette Myers) (07/01/86)
Has anyone had any experience with C-pilot to report? Please mail
replies to the net address below:
Jeanette Myers
Medical Systems Development Corp
{gatech,ihnp4,mcnc,akgua}!msdc!jeanetteccrdave@ucdavis.UUCP (Lord Kahless) (07/03/86)
> > Has anyone had any experience with C-pilot to report? Please mail > replies to the net address below: I'm a former employee of them. DO NOT DEAL WITH THEM! DO NOT DEAL WITH THEM! THEY'RE CRAZY! I'm not kidding. The chief salesman, Bill King, ripped off a lot of people here in Davis. He still owes me $450 in back pay. That I can live with. By now, I don't care. I was just glad to get away from him. That guy was so crazy to work for that I had ended having to drop out of school for a quarter. The circumstances are long and gory. I'm not exagerrating. In fact, I'm being kind here. The full details are *MUCH* worse. Their language is GARBAGE. Really buggy, really frustrating to work with. Thos Sumner is a boob, living in the dark ages. C-Pilot doesn't use curses, but his own private little term files. That means you have to keep a million of these little files around, and you have to fight the bugs in the system to do anything. The language doesn't support reverse video or underline, because Thos doesn't believe in such things. (I cludged it in some of the demos you've probably seen.) Unless they've just installed it, C-PILOT doesn't have windows either. Believe me, that makes coding things SLOW! If you want a reasonable CBT language or set of canned courses to teach UNIX at a fair price, I suggest you contact Courseware Technology, Inc. (818) 895-2605 Attn: Michael Deutsch or Master Class Corporation (315) 337-1000 Attn: Kathy Olney I've worked with both companies, and they're run by honorable, reputable people who sell an honest product. Both sell derivatives of the PILOT language that run under all the common varieties of UNIX. As all of the languages in question are in the PILOT family, you could probably convert to either of the languages in a matter of hours. They're that close.