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- From: campdd@sentex.net (David Campbell)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Microsoft Visual C++ vs. Borland C++
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:21:03 GMT
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- >If you are doing 16-bit development I would look at the new
- >Borland compiler. Microsoft will not be supporting 16-bit
- >compilation.
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- Your review was really great! However, included with Visual C++ 4.0
- is Visual C++ 1.52 for designing 16-bit compilation so the option is
- there. As a note, I had used the Turbo C++ 3.0 compiler a while ago
- to learn programming and it was great, but as far as a learning
- system, the debugging tools, and online documentation make Visual C++
- the better option in my opinion for anyone learning the language.
- Borland very much puts the owness of learning the language on the
- individual whereas Microsoft supports the learning user. There is no
- question that Borland's new compiler will be more feature packed
- however if you are a learning user, this really doesn't matter.
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- David
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