Lpc2000

Paul Curtis wrote:
> nor are the prices inflated for Unix-style operating systems.

Gimpel's policy is very irritating in this respect. I asked them why 
they did it and they claimed it's because users of Unix based systems 
are more expensive to support (we ask over four times as many questions 
as programmers who work on Windows?). I ended up buying PC-Lint and 
running it under Virtual-PC, which is about as fast as an old 486 on my 
Mac and quite inconvenient too. I'm also running a Windows-only 8051 
compiler in the same way (its developer didn't even bother replying to a 
query about the possibility of an OSX port of the command line parts).

> Yeah, would love to offer a toolset on the Mac--we have even ported our
> IDE to the Mac, but performance out of Qt is abysmal on Mac, so we just
> can't release it.

Cadsoft use the X11 version of Qt in their OSX port for this very 
reason. It's not as pretty as a native Cocoa app but it's perfectly usable.

I'm planning to use WxWidgets together with the WxDesigner RAD tool for 
a cross platform GUI program I (reluctantly) need to create soon.

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