Sun Microsystems Inc introduced its own version of AT&T’s C++ object oriented language at the recent International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence held in Detroit. Sun C++ is said to be one of the first products to be based on C++ Release 2.0 from AT&T, and includes a set of integrated program development tools. Including the new features of Release 2.0 such as support for multiple inheritance, the Sun version also works with Sun tools such as an enhanced version of dbx and dbxtool window debugger, for source level debugging capabilities, and uses the dynamic linking and shared library features of the Unix-based SunOS operating system, with additional libraries for streams input-output, complex arithmetic and tasking. Sun C++ also supports the Network Software Environment configuration management system, and supports object linking to information written in Sun’s Fortran, Pascal, Modula-2 and C implementations. No prices were given for the product.
