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- From: "Seth M. Livingston" <slivingston@macromedia.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Symantec C++ 7.1 or Borland C++ 4.53
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:59:48 -0600
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- > You say so! Connect to Compuserve and the Symantec support area for
- > Symantec C++ 7.21 and ask those Borland users why they are switching
- > to Symantec :-). Borlands comes with OWL classlibrary, and there are
- > rumours that they are dropping off the support for OWL. Microsoft uses
- > MFC library and so do Symantec. Symantec is 100% compatibel with
- > Microsoft at source level and they also have much better IDDE compared
- > with Bor/Mic.
- >
-
- I have and use both products -- they both have their merits. Borland is emphatically
- denying any plans to abandon OWL, and I believe them. IMHO, the biggest difference
- between the two products is the fact the BC4.5 does NOT have an integrated 32-bit
- debugger. Ouch. Borland 5.0, however...
-
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- Seth M. Livingston
- Macromedia FreeHand XDK Support
- slivingston@macromedia.com
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