#Lattice Flame
Thumbs down to Lattice! What was once the largest producer of
compilers for the Amigados environment has begun to go rotten. Their
latest versions of the Lattice C compiler produces buggy code that often
doesn't work, forcing you to tweak your code to fit tyhe compiler rather
than the application. Along with this problem comes their problems with
the products that come with the compiler. For instance, the CodeProbe
source-level debugger, which, according to Lattice "…creates a powerful
and easy-to-use debugging environment.", and is "an exceptionally useful
debugger" immediately becomes locked up when redirection through a console
window is performed, and so is often badly suited for serious debugging
purposes. Just as bad is their product updates that don't work because
their installation batch files look for files that heve never existed. And
to top it all off, Lattice has discontinued customer support for the
Amigados C compiler through their free BBS and will now provide on-line
customer support through BIX only. When I bought the Lattice C development
system, I bought it knowing that use of the Lattice BBS for customer
support was part of the price I payed for the compiler. I have no
intention of now paying for what I already payed for by paying subscription
fees to BIX. I already payed $200 for the Lattice compiler and really
don't want to shell out another $200 for the Aztec compiler but with
service like this I think I'll have to. So let's give Lattice a big
boo-hiss for their poor quality of product and service.
Scott Litvinoff
Forest Hills, NY
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