VisualAge C++: Difference between revisions

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Description

IBM VisualAge C++ Version 3.0 for OS/2, full developer's package with a WPS integrated "Workframe", a "Visual Builder" for visual programming of visual and non-visual parts, compiler/linker for C and C++, a Debugger, Build and Make tools and many extras. This used to be the "standard compiler" for OS/2. If all available fixpaks are applied (which is done by applying the cumulative fixpak 8) this package can be considered the most reliable IBM "official developer's tool package" for OS/2 (the latest being version 4.0). A disadvantage is the not fully supported C++ standard (which came later than this compiler). However, you still can use templates, but no namespaces. Code portable between OS/2 and AIX.

Version

Last Version: Version 3.0 with Fixpack 8

Links

Since IBM doesn't sell the package any more you need to get a second hand license.
Fixpak 8 from IBM: [1]

License

IBM Commercial License. Discontinued. IBM Abandonware

Publications

Carrel-Billiard, Jakab, Mauny, Vetter: Object-Oriented Application Development with IBM VisualAge for C++ for OS/2. ISBN 0-13-242447-9
Nilsson, Jakab: VisualAge for C++ Visual Programmer's Handbook. ISBN 0-13-614322-9

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 ==Related Articles==
 * [[A Review of VisualAge C++ Version 4.0]] by [[Gordon Zeglinski]](May 1999)
+* C++ Compiler Review [[C++ Compiler Review - Part 1|Part 1]] by [[Gordon Zeglinski]] (August 1995)
 ==Publications==