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From: bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: First look at Zortech C++
Message-ID: <135@imspw6.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jul 88 01:09:18 GMT
Organization: IMS Inc., Rockville, MD
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To Walter Bright who apparently follows this newsgroup, congratulations
on a magnificent job.  The compiler appears a little faster than Turbo C
and compiles several pieces of code which I regard as "hard" tests, 
Berkeley style stuff which PC compilers other than Borland's and Lattice's
generally break on, easily.  Major C++ features which I have
tested work.

I have noticed a couple of minor glitches which I am told will be repaired
free-of-charge after about 4 weeks when most such items are known.  Stream
output (cout) works on my computer at home but not on Govt. computers
(Zenith 248s & Sperry IT's) at work, a piece of the resident help utility
occasionally gets left in the ruler line of the zed editor, and the XOR
write mode for circles of the flash-graphics package included (or possibly
my understanding of same) is lacking something.  Compared to most 1.0
releases of software, a pretty short list.

Ted Holden
HTE