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- From: pete@borland.com (Pete Becker)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Microsoft Visual C++ vs. Borland C++
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 16:00:04 GMT
- Organization: Borland International
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- In article <314E4805.7FE5@netonecom.net>, flonesaw@netonecom.net says...
- >
- >Microsoft's IDE directly
- >interfaces to the Microsoft Development Library CD, which puts
- >thousands of pages of documentation on-line.
-
- I've never understood the point of this. Wasn't Windows supposed to free us
- from the one-application-does-everyting syndrome? MSDN comes with its own
- reader program, and once you've started it up it's just an Alt-Tab away. What
- benefit is there in being able to read this stuff directly from your
- development environment?
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