plim@hpsgpa.HP.COM (Peter Lim) (11/24/89)
I am thinking of doing personal software development on the MS Windows
platform. After ploughing thru' the magazines, two software tools
seems to stand out: ACTOR and C-TALK. They are both OOPS. Now the question
is which one should I get ?
From advertisement, it says ACTOR generates YACC compatible outputs.
Don't exactly know what it means, but I certainly like to use the thing
together with YACC.
As for C-TALK, it says that there will be future X-window version.
After going thru' the window development toolkit manual, it seems quite
impossible to hack MS Windows program for use under X-window. So,
I definitely want this feature of C-TALK.
Did anyone use either or both of these tools and would like to share
with me their experience ? Help a poor guy make the decision. E-mail
to me directly or reply to this notes.
Many thanks in advance.
Regards,
Peter Lim.
HP Singapore IC Design Center.
E-mail address: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM
Snail Mail address: Peter Lim
Hewlett Packard Singapore,
(ICDS, ICS)
1150, Depot Road,
Singapore 0410.
Telephone: (065)-279-2289patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree) (11/27/89)
In article <8390001@hpsgpa.HP.COM> plim@hpsgpa.HP.COM (Peter Lim) writes: > >I am thinking of doing personal software development on the MS Windows >platform. After ploughing thru' the magazines, two software tools >seems to stand out: ACTOR and C-TALK. They are both OOPS. Now the question >is which one should I get ? > Well, since I work for the company that writes Actor I would, of course, say that you should buy Actor. That's a biased opinion though. I'm sending you our literature (or more specifically I'm having a sales dude do it) but I'll address one question that you had right now. You asked about compatibility with Yacc. We do provide a way for you to create your own script language under Actor (it's not easy, but then YACC never is). We even have a YACC parser on our BBS and produces Actor code. Neat stuff, eh? To address another issue you had, we also plan to have an X-Windows version some time in the future. I'm not sure what time frame the C-Talk guys are shooting for, but we are not sure of ours so I couldn't announce any general times that we might have an X-Windows version. -- "I place my faith in fools. Self confidence, my friends call it." -Edgar Allen Poe Patrick Deupree -> patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us