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Recently a large company made online versions of their word
processing and related products available. I guess they
were responding to another large company that already has
this sort of functionality online. More recently I read that Quicken
and other money management programs are
now available online.

It seems like C++ is falling behind the curve again in
this area. In 1977 Comeau debuted their "online
compiler." It was great at the time, but they haven't
done anything with it since. Surprisingly other compiler
vendors haven't even bothered to take similar steps. Are
any vendors planning to take the plunge any time soon?

They might not attempt to provide object code for
multiple platforms, but they could provide fully
instantiated source code that could be used as input
to a simpler, local compiler. That might require a
whole program assumption, but that isn't a problem
in most cases.

Brian Wood
Ebenezer Enterprises
www.webebenezer.net

[Rolf Magnus]

co**@mailvault.com wrote:

Recently a large company made online versions of their word
processing and related products available. I guess they
were responding to another large company that already has
this sort of functionality online. More recently I read that Quicken
and other money management programs are
now available online.

It seems like C++ is falling behind the curve again in
this area. In 1977 Comeau debuted their "online
compiler." It was great at the time, but they haven't
done anything with it since.

Not sure what you mean by "online compiler", but you can try out Comeau
online AFAIK.

Surprisingly other compiler vendors haven't even bothered to take similar
steps. Are any vendors planning to take the plunge any time soon?

A few years ago, SourceForge had a compile farm that you could use to
compile your opensource software for various platforms. That might still
exist. I haven't checked for a while.

They might not attempt to provide object code for
multiple platforms, but they could provide fully
instantiated source code that could be used as input
to a simpler, local compiler. That might require a
whole program assumption, but that isn't a problem
in most cases.

I don't see what that would be good for.

[coal]

On Oct 24, 11:18 pm, Rolf Magnus <[e-mail]:

[e-mail] wrote:

Recently a large company made online versions of their word
processing and related products available. I guess they
were responding to another large company that already has
this sort of functionality online. More recently I read that Quicken
and other money management programs are
now available online.

It seems like C++ is falling behind the curve again in
this area. In 1977 Comeau debuted their "online
compiler." It was great at the time, but they haven't
done anything with it since.

Not sure what you mean by "online compiler", but you can try out Comeau
online AFAIK.

I'm talking about a compiler that is designed to not exit after one
run, is
available online, and returns more than warnings.

Surprisingly other compiler vendors haven't even bothered to take similar
steps. Are any vendors planning to take the plunge any time soon?

A few years ago, SourceForge had a compile farm that you could use to
compile your opensource software for various platforms. That might still
exist. I haven't checked for a while.

They might not attempt to provide object code for
multiple platforms, but they could provide fully
instantiated source code that could be used as input
to a simpler, local compiler. That might require a
whole program assumption, but that isn't a problem
in most cases.

I don't see what that would be good for.

It would help with portability. Generated code would either
be correct (on all platforms) or not.

It would also be easier to get updates to people that want them.

Brian Wood
Ebenezer Enterprises
www.webebenezer.net

[Juha Nieminen]

co**@mailvault.com wrote:

It seems like C++ is falling behind the curve again in
this area. In 1977 Comeau debuted their "online
compiler."

Given that C++ was developed in 1979 (and not even named "C++"
until 1983), I have hard time believing that.

[Victor Bazarov]

Juha Nieminen wrote:

co**@mailvault.com wrote:

>It seems like C++ is falling behind the curve again in
this area. In 1977 Comeau debuted their "online
compiler."

Given that C++ was developed in 1979 (and not even named "C++"
until 1983), I have hard time believing that.

Well, nobody said Comeau debuted a C++ compiler. :-)

V
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[coal]

On Oct 24, 2:46 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

Recently a large company made online versions of their word
processing and related products available. I guess they
were responding to another large company that already has
this sort of functionality online. More recently I read that Quicken
and other money management programs are
now available online.

To update this a little
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle2917414.ece
"We are just a few years away from the end of the shrink-wrapped
software business. By 2010, people will not be buying software,"

That's a quote from the article. I think there will still be
sales of shrink-wrapped software in 2010, but I agree with
the gist of it.
Brian Wood
Ebenezer Enterprises
www.webebenezer.net