Charles Gaefke wrote in a message to Eric Rusk:

ER> good things about Watcom.  BTW, how much does it cost?

 CG>     Expensive. 

Watcom C++ is by far the least expensive compiler I know of.
All other compilers cost more.

 CG>  $350 from them.  I paid $290 from a reseller.  

And you say that's _expensive_ ?!? 

 CG> I'd recommend going for it.  In terms of usability, it can't 
 CG> be beat. 

But unfortunately it does not come with an OS/2 class library or
with a serious IDE.

 CG>     Full installation to HDD is 441 megs. :)

Only if you intend to install it (hosted) on all platforms and 
with full RTL source code, and so on... When I installed it, I
guess it took less than 100 MB on my HD. I cannot tell it for
certain, though, since I am currently not using Watcom C++.

 CG> Disadvantages:
 CG>     Fairly expensive 

I don't agree with that ;-)

 CG> Real slow compiler - 

Depends... VisualAge C++ is even slower. I believe the Watcom
performance is tolerable.

 CG> it takes me 30-40 minutes to compile a 100k source file, with 
 CG> full optimization. 

You deserve that, if you write single source files of 100k! A C/C++
source file should usually not exceed 10-20k.

Tschuess,
  Steffen 
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