Manx 5.0a – strike 1
16-Feb-90 04:43:48
Sb: #90333-Manx 5.0a – strike 1
Fm: Syndesis 76004,1763
To: David Hamkins 76515,1650
I own Lattice, too, but not the 5. version yet, I'll probably upgrade, and
another faction within Syndesis does use 5.0. I own a commercial version
of Manx, and just ordered 6.0. Advocate? Well, yes, but mostly from the
big pile of source code for InterChange and InterFont that resides in
Manx-ish code. Even if it was easy, I don't have time to port it and then
test it to insure the port went correctly. So I'll maintain it all in Manx
3.6a for a long time, I imagine. I'm always distrustful of the first
release of *ANYTHING*, and any developer would be a fool to rely on the
first release of a new compiler, be it Manx or Lattice. Lattice 5.0 had
plenty of bugs, too, and I'm sure Manx 6.0 has got some, too. I paid my
$75 more just to keep up; I don't think I'll start working with it
seriously until they've posted the second set of bug-fixing patches. 🙂