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- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Coh/linux/gcc/etc
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 14:11:21 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9212250911.23@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <BzIoDA.Hzv@well.sf.ca.us> <9212235948@drktowr.chi.il.us>
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- In article <9212235948@drktowr.chi.il.us> magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto) writes:
- >Greg Comeau (comeau@csanta.attmail.com) wrote:
- >: In article <9212159277@drktowr.chi.il.us> magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto) writes:
- >: >Any commercial C++ compiler you
- >: >would buy would easily be >$300
- >:
- >: Nope. Comeau C++ 3.0 With Templates is the most diversely ported
- >: commercial C++ anywhere, and quite a number of our ports cost $250.
- >
- >Whatever. The point was $250 >> $49 which is what MWC is charging for
- >a binary distribution ready to install of GCC.
-
- The other point is that for $250 you get real AT&T Cfront which is the
- C++ 3.0 standard. And for $49 you get GCC which is grotesquely huge,
- and is not completely C++ compatible.
-
- GCC has a lot of good points, and I would probably jump for it if Coherent
- had demand paging, but for now I just consider it a memory hog.
-
- --
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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