nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock) (06/08/89)
In article <2298@pur-phy> murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (William J. Murphy) writes: >I talked to Manx a few weeks ago, and their next release has been pushed >off to this fall. The person I spoke with was not pleased with this. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!! Oh, that's rich. Know what I heard? Manx is going to skip over 5.0, and go right to 6.0, which will be combined with Music-X to become a new integrated package called "In the Key of C". It will allow you to program in ANSI-C from any standard MIDI keyboard. It will be out by Christmas. Really! Thinking back with amusement at the Manx guy from AmiExpo who said 5.0 would *absolutely* *positively* be out in July, /.- -- .. --. .- .-. ..- .-.. . ... .- -- .. --. .- .-. ..- .-.. . ...\ / Neil Weinstock | att!cord!nsw | "One man's garbage is another \ \ AT&T Bell Labs | nsw@cord.att.com | man's prune danish." - Harv Laser / \.- -- .. --. .- .-. ..- .-.. . ... .- -- .. --. .- .-. ..- .-.. . .../
chad@cup.portal.com (Chad The-Walrus Netzer) (06/11/89)
In a previous article (Neil Weinstock) writes:
)Thinking back with amusement at the Manx guy from AmiExpo who said 5.0 would
)*absolutely* *positively* be out in July,
Take all the time you need to make 5.0 solid, bug free, and feature
packed, Jim... Don't release it until that is done and all the known bugs are
fixed... MHO, that's all.
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Chad 'The_Walrus' Netzer -> AmigaManiac++
"I liked him better before he died."
-McCoy, STrek_Vecphssrw@robin.csun.edu (Stephen Walton) (06/12/89)
In all fairness to Manx, it is still true that, according to TransAmi V2 #1, Manx 3.6a compiles A68K in 8 minutes 22 seconds compared with 10:01 for Lattice 5.02 normal and 46:21 (!!) for Lattice with the global optimizer on. No wonder Dave Haynie said that Lattice C++ would only be real usable on an A2620 machine with a fast hard disk...That said, if Manx 5.0 slips any further, I'll be switching too. -- Stephen Walton, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Univ. Northridge RCKG01M@CALSTATE.BITNET ecphssrw@afws.csun.edu swalton@solar.stanford.edu ...!csun!afws.csun.edu!ecphssrw
dlarson@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dale Larson) (06/13/89)
In article chad@cup.portal.com (Chad The-Walrus Netzer) writes: > Take all the time you need to make 5.0 solid, bug free, and feature >packed, Jim... Don't release it until that is done and all the known bugs are >fixed... MHO, that's all. And please, please, please release something ANSI compatible (ESPECIALLY prototypes) in the mean time (can you say yesterday?). Sure there are a lot of neat features that can be added, but the Amiga needed this from the start, and I REALLY wanted it when I bought my copy of K&RII - almost a year ago!!! Will the first version of Amiga Aztec C++ come about the time an ANSI committee has been started and completed a standard? Or will it be a few years after the draft standard has been pretty stable and adopted by all competition? -- dTb dTb I know enough about epistemology to know that I don't know anything about programming OR epistemology! Digital Teddy Bear dlarson@blake.acs.washington.edu
dlarson@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dale Larson) (06/13/89)
I am reposting this because it bounced back to me from some server or another (I doubt anyone not local could read the original). In some article chad@cup.portal.com (Chad The-Walrus Netzer) writes: > Take all the time you need to make 5.0 solid, bug free, and feature >packed, Jim... Don't release it until that is done and all the known bugs are >fixed... MHO, that's all. And please, please, please release something ANSI compatible (ESPECIALLY prototypes) in the mean time (can you say yesterday?). Sure there are a lot of neat features that can be added, but the Amiga needed this from the start, and I REALLY wanted it when I bought my copy of K&RII - almost a year ago!!! Will the first version of Amiga Aztec C++ come about the time an ANSI committee has been started and completed a standard? Or will it be a few years after the draft standard has been pretty stable and adopted by all competition? -- dTb dTb I know enough about epistemology to know that I don't know anything about programming OR epistemology! Digital Teddy Bear dlarson@blake.acs.washington.edu