At 11:39 PM 8/18/2006 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: >MD> a popular compiler might be trouble. > Let me again disagree with word "popular".
QB 4.5 must have sold into the hundreds of thousands. I owned a copy myself and there was a huge community around it. It was _very_ popular, more so than the C compilers of the day. There were a massive number of QB 4.5 applications in commercial and private use, including a small number of my own. For QB 4.0, I'm purely guessing it had decent but modest sales numbers, far below QB 4.5. However, as you know, compilers often propagate their internal problems, as QB 4.0 does, which is why they disproportionately affect environments beyond their own sales and install numbers. You might not have encountered many QB applications because a lot of them went straight into vertical market, niche, and personal uses. Anyway, I don't know if QB 4.5 has the same problem. But if it does, the bug unquestionably needs to be fixed ASAP because of the huge installed based of QB 4.5 applications. If only in 4.0, we're left deciding whether it was popular enough or not. If it's questionable, it's probably better to be safe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
