In a message dated 12-11-98, Mike Ruskai said to David Noon about "OS/2 C++
Programming?"

Hi Mike,

MR>I've got one C++ program right here that is both smaller and faster 
MR>compiled with EMX.  

MR>I'm sure there are other examples that prove the other case, but at the 
MR>very least we can't generalize.

True. The one hard-and-fast rule about automated code optimization is that
there are no hard-and-fast rules.
 
 DN> Les Rhorer, formerly of Fido, was able to d/l the Warp 4 toolkit back
 DN> in September. He is the guy I referred to above. He used Guest level.

MR>I've tried both before and after September (of this year), and it has 
MR>always required Advanced level access.  Unless there was a window in 
MR>September when they changed the requirements, Les must be mistaken
MR>somehow.

I doubt he is mistaken. Anybody who has dealt with him knows he is very
persistent, which is often necessary with IBM's Web servers.

MR>Or, we're not talking about the same toolkit.

At least, not the same copy.

MR>The one I'm talking about is:

MR>http://service2.boulder.ibm.com/devcon/showcase/cat/warptlkt.htm

He didn't tell me which URL he used, but I don't think it would be that one.
He definitely said it was in Greece, not Colorado.

 DN> ALGOL 68 and FORTRAN 95 compilers for OS/2 seem to be reasonably
 DN> priced in this country. Both suffer from the same lack of tools that
 DN> blights EMX. 

MR>I've not seen any FORTRAN 90+ compilers for OS/2 anywhere.  Who makes it?

N.A. Software Ltd., in Manchester, somewhere north of Milton Keynes. It uses
the same back-end as the Oxford & Cambridge ALGOL 68 compiler for OS/2. I
have a copy of the latter.

Since I made a few bob in overtime last month, I might treat myself to a
copy of the FORTRAN 95 compiler. It is about time I replaced my aging
Microsplat FORTRAN 77 compiler for 16-bit OS/2.

 DN> Did you try looking for Personal Edition at the site in the message I
 DN> forwarded here a few weeks ago?

MR>No.  I don't think I saw that.

MR>Care to repeat it?

I am not sure I have it any more. I'll look through the message base here on
DoNoR/2 and if I find it I will netmail it to you.

Regards

Dave

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