lee@hhb.UUCP (lee daniels) (06/07/89)
I need information about the availability of C++ development environments for the Mac. I can develop either under Mac OS or AUX but the resulting application must be able to run under Mac OS as a minimum. I know that Apple is working on C++ for MPW. Is it available, and if so is it any good? Has someone ported GNU to MAC? Is there a third party with C++ out there? Thank you for any help you can give me. Lee Daniels (201) 848-8000 HHB Systems 1000 Wyckoff Avenue, uucp path: princeton!hhb!lee@uunet.uu.net Mahwah, New Jersey 07430
shebanow@apple.com (Andrew Shebanow) (06/08/89)
Apple is working on a version of CFront 2.0 that runs under MPW. It has been delayed several times (its not our fault, really!), but with AT&T's publicly promised June 30 release date coming up, the end is near, and we should have a beta version available from APDA soon thereafter. Andrew Shebanow MacDTS - Wanna See Something REALLY Scary? -
ech@cbnewsk.ATT.COM (ned.horvath) (06/08/89)
From article <238@hhb.UUCP>, by lee@hhb.UUCP (lee daniels): > I need information about the availability of C++ development > environments for the Mac. I can develop either under Mac OS or AUX > but the resulting application must be able to run under Mac OS as > a minimum. I know that Apple is working on C++ for MPW. Is it available, > and if so is it any good? Has someone ported GNU to MAC? Is there a > third party with C++ out there? Apple have been working closely with the folks at AT&T, and say they will ship an MPW cfront 2.0 "real soon" after AT&T ships. AT&T sounds pretty firm about 6/30 (no, I don't have any insider information), so expect C++ from Apple in the fall. I don't expect MacApp support for C++ until 1Q90, if then. Meanwhile, Think (div. of Symantec) is planning a non-C++ OO extension to their Lightspeed C package. They demoed some preliminary stuff at MacWorld in January, but haven't announced a ship date. You ought to contact the usual suspects -- Oregon Software and Zortech come to mind -- about A/UX-resident products. They may not be useful for your final product (or likely are, if you are disciplined) but should get you started. Doubtless there are other efforts of which I am ignorant... =Ned Horvath=
ward@eplrx7.UUCP (ward) (06/15/89)
At Usenix on Tuesday(6/13) we asked some marketing types how much the new
version(2.0) of cfront would cost, and they said $20,000! Of course, it's
only $18,000 for an upgrade from 1.*...
Long live GNU!
Seriously, this seems like an extremely steep rise in price.
Rick
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I saw an article in MacWeek that said (I believe) that AT&T had finally released C Front. Since this is what Apple was waiting on for their MPW C++, is their any estimate on when that wil be released? Jes curious... Robert ------ ra_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu ------ generic disclaimer: all my opinions are mine