pcb@gator.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) (06/16/90)
I had an old version of Actor, it was a memory hog, but I used it a little
before I got the SDK. I had thought about using it again, with the
benefits of object-oriented programming an such...but last year at
the oopsla conference I personally crashed the system 5 times and saw
it crash several other times (crash - cold reboot the system) during
presentations.
It may be realize that I am not alone with win development problems.
But then I thought about it and said: "Are the crashes because they
had no-name hardware" (some off the wall clones where they had to
'jump start' a monitor?) or is Actor really that unstable?
I would like to here from someone outside of Whitewater that
has developed a substantial application (maybe commercial) using Actor;
maybe something comparable to a 10-20+ thousand line program in SDK.
Is it slower? (i.e. being interpreted and being OO).
Is Actor practical for areas outside of R&D; graphics and OO investigations?
Oh, by the way, I read yesterday that Actor and SDK are it...well
Glockenspeil has a C++ out and the sold a kit for win386 SDK to do
OO graphics programming in win...called Commonview I think? I don't know
if they have a new release for win3 yet.
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