Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

  > Well, I've placed my order for the upgrade to Watcom C/C++ 10.5.

 JdBP>   Question 1:

 JdBP>      Is it worth it ?  According to the blurb, there is
 JdBP> *nothing* new in      the compiler at all.  It seems that
 JdBP> all that is new is some bundled      Windows application
 JdBP> generator bought from a third party. 

I don't really know.  It has not even arrived yet.  What I do know is that
I personally own a number of outstanding bug reports against Watcom 10.0,
and I am hoping that many of them are fixed in 10.5.  Even if they are not
fixed, I have to maintain any compiler I actually use professionally at the
latest version level, or I am going to look like a pretty incompetent
programmer.

I have had enough trouble explaining why I use Microsoft C 6.0 from 1990 to
write OS/2 device drivers, but the answer to that was always that there was
no alternative.  If it costs me US$129 just to be able to say to clients
that I am using the latest version of the tools, then I'll pay it.

 JdBP>   Question 2:

 JdBP>      Any special deal for the poor sods who bought Watcom
 JdBP> C++ 10.0 in the last three weeks ?

Yes.  I don't know when the cutoff is, but recent purchasers get free upgrades.
 
-- Mike


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