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- From: bf461@cleveland.freenet.edu (Bryan Murphy)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Entry Level Compilers?
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 09:43:17 GMT
- Organization: AT&T Interchange Online Network
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- Is it just me, or are compilers just getting too expensive these days?
-
- I remember a time when I could buy the top of the line Microsoft for
- Borland Compilers for $100 or less. Now their charging these ridiculous
- $500 prices and that doesn't even include the extra $100+ for the
- Assembler and god only knows how much for a Dos Extender if you are
- going into dos Development!! None of them even come with printed
- documentation anymore!
-
- Who else thinks this has gotten a little out of hand? Small time
- developers like me are being left behind with lackluster tools (sorry,
- but Borland C 3.1 just doesn't cut it now a days). I can't afford to be
- buying a new $400/$500 compiler each year just to keep up to date with
- the standards.
-
- On a plus side, Watcom has been reasonably priced, but I want to get a
- compiler that fully supports MFC 4.0 (Luckily, I can get a $99 student
- edition of VC++ 4.0, but that's w/o tech support). Anyways, is the new
- version of Watcom C++ going to include MFC 4.0 and MFC 4.0 support?
- From what I've read, it sounds really nice, but I've seen nothing about
- what MFC they are supporting.
-
- If they support 4.0, I'm definately going to get Watcom (primarily
- because of the Dos Extender).
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