starbuck@ucrmath.ucr.edu (aaron greenwood) (03/13/91)
I recieved in the mail an offer to buy ACTOR from programmers wherehouse for 99.00. List price 895.00. The add claims this product is a case tool for developing C++ applications including Windows programs. Looks too good to be true. Any comments on this product and it's value for OOP using C++. Aaron J. Greenwood email: starbuck@ucrac1.ucr.edu Dept of Biochemistry starbuck@ucrmath.ucr.edu University of Calafornia u8221@y1.sdsc.edu Riverside, Ca. 92507 Tele: (714) 787-3397
johner@leland.Stanford.EDU (John Lynch) (03/13/91)
In article <12702@ucrmath.ucr.edu> starbuck@ucrmath.ucr.edu (aaron greenwood) writes: > >I recieved in the mail an offer to buy ACTOR from programmers wherehouse >for 99.00. List price 895.00. The add claims this product is a case tool >for developing C++ applications including Windows programs. > >Looks too good to be true. Any comments on this product and it's value >for OOP using C++. > >Aaron J. Greenwood email: starbuck@ucrac1.ucr.edu >Dept of Biochemistry starbuck@ucrmath.ucr.edu >University of Calafornia u8221@y1.sdsc.edu >Riverside, Ca. 92507 Tele: (714) 787-3397 You're correct; it's not true. Yes, Actor is available for $99.00 these days, but it is not a C++ development tool. It is its own object-oriented language and a development environment and set of classes for developing Windows applications. It supports single inheritance and dynamic binding, the syntax is kind of a cross between C and Pascal, and it uses a threaded interpreter (whatever that means), which gives you incremental compilation of classes and pretty good performance. It's a pretty good tool for quickly developing Windows applications; so if you want an inexpensive, object-oriented tool for such a task, it's a good choice. If you are looking for a C++ development environment, I'd look at Borland's or Zortech's. Comments on Actor and Borland's C++ are pretty frequent on comp.ms.windows.programmer. John Lynch johner@leland.stanford.edu