Some senseless babbling from David Noon to Wayne Steele
on 05 Dec 98  16:16:00 about OS/2 C++ Programming?...

 DN> In a message dated 12-01-98, Wayne Steele said to David Noon about
 DN> "OS/2 C++ Programming?"

 DN> There is a freeware compiler called EMX. Worth every penny. It is a
 DN> reasonably good compiler, but has no add-on tools as such and the
 DN> documentation sucks.
 
 WS>Your about the third person to recommend that... I'm 
 WS>currently downloading it now from the OS/2 Super site...

 DN> I wouldn't say that I recommended it. I suppose it's alright if you
 DN> don't have anything better.

EMX generates very tight and fast object code.  Faster than VACPP and 
Watcom.  The downside to it is the difficulty in finding information, and 
that it has no IDE.
 
[snip]
 
 DN> You might care to download a more recent release of the OS/2
 DN> Developer's Toolkit, as the version supplied with the Watcom
 DN> compilers is for OS/2 2.1.
 
 WS>So where will I find this?

 DN> http://www.developer.ibm.com/devcon

 DN> You will have to sign in as a "guest" but you can d/l
most stuff once
 DN> you have done that. It should allow you to d/l the Warp 4 toolkit, but
 DN> some of IBM's Web pages can be confusing. The last guy I told to do
 DN> this ended up with a d/l from Athens owned by IBM Greece. ... :-)))

The toolkit is not available at the Guest level, nor even the Member level.  
You must pay $300 for the Advanced level to have access to it.

IBM sometimes seems as if it's trying to prevent people from writing 
software for OS/2, in a twisted way.
 
[snip]
 DN> Note that so far we have only discussed the C and C++ languages. There
 DN> is much, much more to learn about OS/2 programming, unless you are
 DN> content to limit yourself to command line interface (CLI) programs.

The problem, however, is that there doesn't seem to be any affordable 
languages other than C/C++.

PL/I is now obscenely overpriced (I had planned on getting a copy to play 
with - no more, unless I win the lottery).

Smalltalk has always been overpriced.  COBOL is overpriced, and of dubious 
utility for micros.  

Unless, of course, you were merely commenting on the limitations of books 
that teach the languages :)

Mike Ruskai
thanny{at}home.com


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