Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!apple!bionet!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!pete From: pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Lattice V5.0: Well worth the money Summary: seconded... Message-ID: <18076@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 9 Dec 88 09:10:34 GMT References: <1898@super.ORG> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 38 In article <1898@super.ORG> rminnich@brainiac.super.org (Ronald G Minnich) writes: >Well since people have been asking, i thought i would put in my >2 cents on Lattice V5.0. Especially as I have in the past expressed >my unhappiness with Lattice in no uncertain terms. > Anyway, Lattice V5 is a real nice piece of work. The >symbolic debugger is terrific, the manuals are good, and at long last >lattice includes a make program. [.........] I've had my copy for about a week now, and though I haven't done any heavy work with it yet, everything I've tried has been great. I don't regret that $75 upgrade fee at all. I spent a couple of hours goofing around with the debugger, and it looks to have everything I'd ever want. Can't wait 'til my next big bug...(!) It is nice too to have 3-RING BINDER MANUALS -- and well written at that. And the make, finally, though it does have one problem (in a moment..). As I am using C++ a lot at the moment, the first thing I did was to check that the C++ system would accept the 5.0 compiler in place of 4.1. It does. Compiled all my modules without a whimper, they're all a little shorter (4%-9%), and the program still runs. The only disappointment was when I tried the make on C++'s "cc" compile manager. It apparently runs straight into the Execute()/pr_ConsoleTask bug that's been a recent topic in amiga.tech -- works fine until the first error is reached, then instant Guru. (The problem is that C++ sends its error messages out via stderr.) I can get around it by invoking the compiler phases separately in the makefile, but it's a shame. I couldn't get anything similar in a plain C environment, so it shouldn't worry other people too much, unless they have some cute use for make. > So a heartfelt Thanks to all at Lattice who put this version >together. >ron ... from me too. -- Pete --