An objective look at C++ environments

Author

Oman, Paul

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Idaho Univ., Moscow, ID, USA

Volume

6

Issue

2

fYear

1989

fDate

3/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

100

Lastpage

103

Abstract

The authors evaluated six C++ environments: three for MS-DOS PCs, and three for mini and mainframe Unix systems. They tested the MS-DOS products-Advantage C++ Version 1.2 (beta2a), Guidelines C++ Version 1.2, and Zortech C++ Version 1.05-on an 8-MHz, 80286-based PC with a 44-Mbyte hard disk but with no math coprocessor. They tested Oregon C++ Version 1.1C on a Sun-3 running SunOS 3.5; GNU C++ on a Sequent Balance 21000 running Dynix 3.0; and AT&T C++ on the Sequent, the Sun, and on a Digital Equipment Corp. MicroVAX II running Unix 4.3 BSD. They believe, based on the results of their study, that C++ will be the dominant object-oriented language that industry uses for serious software development.<>

Keywords

C language; object-oriented programming; program compilers; programming environments; AT&T C++; Advantage C++ Version 1.2; C++environments; Dynix 3.0; GNU C++; Guidelines C++ Version 1.2; MS-DOS; MicroVAX II; Oregon C++ Version 1.1C; Sequent; Sequent Balance 21000; Sun-3; SunOS 3.5; Unix; Unix 4.3 BSD; Zortech C++ Version 1.05; object-oriented language; Costs; Guidelines; Hard disks; Lattices; Object oriented modeling; Personal communication networks; Program processors; Read-write memory; Runtime library; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/52.23141

Filename

23141