CompuServe Messages

John, Thanks for your extensive reply. I really appreciate the fact that your opinions appear to be relatively objective and not steeped in personal bias. (i.e. Every try to talk to a *insufferable* TC bigot, they're worse than ex-smokers…) As for not using the integrated environment, well, the text editor is probably one of my least concerns. If JPI is really smart, they'll include an option that allows one to plug in their favorite editor rather than using the "factory" model (ala QC V2). One of the other things that impressed me was JPI's efforts at constructing an integrated multi-language environment. I also use Modula-2 and mixed-language support, while possible, has not exactly been straight forward. If I understand the literature correctly, VID is supposed to be able to detect error across languages and point you to the correct source file (i.e. a program consisting of C & Modula-2 components) assuming it was generated by one of their compilers. Now there's a minor leap in debugging technology for ya! (Perhaps this really isn't new stuff, but its new to me…) I also caught your message over on CLMFOR about the ANSI C standard being finalized (HORAY!). This should make TS an early leader if their claims of 100% compatibilty with the latest draft are true. Now the race will be on for all compiler mfg's to produce real "ANSI compliant" products. In any event, I'm glad the standard has finally been established. At least now we have something to compare products against (besides ol' K&R). Now we'll just have to thrash around with all the "C++" varients, eh? Regards, Dean