pdy@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (P. D. Yapa) (07/04/90)
I purchased this Lahey compiler for $ 1200 ( quite expensive) but it was really worth the money. Compare with some other compilers that cost only around 300$. They come on more than 10 disks, and you have keep inserting disks for installation. Then you have to answer a zillion questions. Lahey EM 32 came on a single disk( archived). Type install .It asks only two questions ( actually you can even avoid the second question). In a few minutes it is installed. The same goes with OS 386. This part is really handy. I spent a total of less than 15 minutes before I could get my programs compiled and linked. Some of progs take up 3 meg ( estimate), I didn't have any problem running on a 386 with 1+ 3 Meg memory. compiling and linking is extremely fast. It has a debugger which looks very good, but I haven't used that part extensively yet. YES It was expensive, but SInce I could find the money It was well spent. Hope that with more sales they will come down on price. By the way you can buy the package from outside vendors for under 1000 $. the new version also allows unlimited distribution of run time copies of your fortran programs. Pooji