From: "Raymond Wiker" <raymond(a)orion.no&gt; Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:47:31 +0100 (CET) Rick Campbell writes: > As far as I can tell, while Sun is fighting Microsoft in the public > arena, their technical decisions are some of the biggest reasons > around for switching to the dark side, er, NT. I'm not sure that even > HPs C++ compiler is as bad as Sun's is these days. It's really kind > of embarrassing to have to have a zillion backward compatibility hacks > so that code that works with all of the ANSI compatibility that comes > with Visual C++ can still deal with something as archaic as > Sparcworks(*). I'm not excatly sure *what* you're saying here - are you referring to ANSI C, or ANSI C++ (or ANSI Common Lisp? Nah...) C++. I guess specifically, adherence to the CD2 as there isn't actually a published standard yet.

> Meanwhile all their C++ effort seems to be in building > a friggin graphical development environment. Like, someone should > tell them that you're supposed to get the core functionality in place > before you starting playing with the bells and whistles. Jeez. Seems to work for Microsoft :-) Definitely, but what's sad is that Sun is doing it to the point that they're making Microsoft look good by comparison.