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In article <1993Jan4.180601.9645@iscsvax.uni.edu> to5232@iscsvax.uni.edu  
writes:
> In article <1993Jan4.221458.7320@tc.cornell.edu>,  
philip@vger.cheme.cornell.edu writes:
> > In article <1992Dec22.060830.2807849309@ultramac.uucp>,  
to5232@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
> >>
> >>I am looking for a C++ compiler for the MAC.  I know of Zortech but I  
am still
> >>not sure that they still produce it.  Can someone tell me of any C++  
compilers
> >>for the MAC and where I can buy?
> > 
> > ThinkC has a very good C++ implementation, and you can get it just  
about
> > anywhere. BTW the current version is 5.0.3
> >  
> How compliant is it with the ATT C++ compiler?  It equivalent to ATT C++  
2.1 or
> higher? (Just asking for a point of reference.)

I beg to differ--Think C 5.0 is NOT a C++ compiler. While it supports some  
features of C++, it does not support operator overloading which I consider  
the big reason to use C++ for engineering/scientific/number-crunching  
software development. Nice environment, but for my purposes it isn't a C++  
package. (Although, I wish it was!)

There are also some other deficiencies which preclude it from being C++  
complient; however, I don't remember them since I stopped looking at the  
package when I discovered it didn't have operator overloading.

(Operator overloading means I can have multiple definitions of "*" so that  
the command a=c*v behaves correctly regardless of c or v being a scalar,  
vector, matrix, polynomial, etc. Obviously, this facilitates writing  
compact, yet maintainable, number-crunching code.)

Mark.
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Mark Kotanchek
Guidance & Control Dept - 363 ASB
Applied Research Lab/Penn State
P.O. Box 30
State College, PA 16804