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- From: rainbow@msn.fullfeed.com (kevink)
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- Subject: New to C++, Visual C++, or Borland? Please start me off right. Thanks!
- Date: 6 Feb 1996 02:09:36 GMT
- Organization: somewhere over the rainbow
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- Hi, I am becoming a mainframe dinosaur. I have been a systems analyst and
- am currently an IMS/DB2 DBA on IBM mainframes. Yuck, I hate it.
-
- I am learning Visual Basic and C++ as the start of my transition to
- client/server and PC platforms.
-
- Question: I have the opportunity to buy Visual C++ 4 or Borland C++ 4.5
- with a student discount (I am taking night courses). Which should I buy,
- purely from a marketable skill set standpoint?
-
- I have a Mac LCII which I am selling, and a 386 laptop, but will be buying
- a Pentium (please e-mail with recommendations) in the next month or so.
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- I was in the Mac world for a while because it was better (esp. when PC's
- were still had DOS as the primary OS).
-
- Now, I don't want to be best, I want to be standard and marketable :)
-
- Any advice?
-
- Thanks,
-
- Kevin
-
- --
- trusting the process ...
-